Scoring rubrics are useful to serve performance assessment for learning and assessment because they can be created for a variety of subjects and situations. Rubrics look like more suitable and effective tools for summative and formative evaluation because they include qualitative description of the performance criteria. In recent years, rubrics have been accepted as the most popular performance-based assessment tools. It has been recommended that rubrics can be used in the new educational program in Turkey which was revised and re-organized in the scoop of constructualism. It has also been stated at the annual meeting of Ministry of Education that rubrics should be preferred for all lectures when implementing an effective performance-based assessment. But it is not an easy procedure to develop an effective rubric. Many educational scientists have studied rubrics and their properties. This article examines the guidelines and principles from the educational literature that are related to scoring rubrics. The purpose of this article can be summarized as follows: (1) Describe what is a scoring rubric and the different types of scoring rubrics. (2) To put forward the principles of consistent and successful scoring rubrics. (3) To discuss it's instructional design from the point of view of educational literature. (4) To contribute to rubric developers and educational literature aimed at improving the design of classroom assessment rubrics. At the same time, applications, considerations, and suggestion are given with clear examples and templates.