<h1>Workshop: Building and utilizing rubrics for assessment of data management plans</h1> **Amanda Whitmire**, *Stanford University* <br> **Jake Carlson**, *University of Michigan Library*<br> **Susan Wells Parham**, *Georgia Institute of Technology*<br> **Brian Westra**, *University of Oregon* <h2>Short description (~3 sentences, 1 paragraph)</h2> With an increasing number of funding agencies implementing data management plan (DMP) requirements, there is a growing need for robust tools to enable standardized, qualitative and quantitative reviews of these plans. Come to this workshop to hear how we developed an analytic rubric to review National Science Foundation DMPs, how we used the results to inform changes to our data services, and how you can use our methodology to create new rubrics to assess DMPs from other agencies. Our goal for this workshop is to create a launching pad for the development of a set of crowd-sourced DMP rubrics for several funding agencies and a set of information services professionals who are equipped to use them. <h2>Longer description</h2> With an increasing number of funding agencies implementing data management plan (DMP) requirements, there is a growing need for robust tools to enable standardized, qualitative and quantitative reviews of these plans. This workshop will empower you to create rubrics for the structured assessment of data management plans (DMPs), and will explore how assessments can be used to inform the development or evolution of research data services. We will spend the morning reviewing a range of approaches to reviewing DMPs, with an emphasis on rubrics, and discuss what has been learned from these efforts. We will also share how findings from DMP assessments can inform the evolution of local data services. The afternoon session will focus on the development and use of rubrics as an assessment tool for formal DMP review. The creation of an effective rubric for reviewing a data management plan is not as simple as converting guidance language into assessment criteria. We will share unexpected challenges that we encountered and suggest ways to address them when they arise. We will shift our focus from National Science Foundation DMPs and provide you with time and training to apply our methods to the funding agency of your choice. There will be ample opportunity for attendees to practice developing an analytic rubric to assess sample DMPs for adherence to newly mandated funder guidelines. You will leave the workshop with the knowledge and training that you need to create an assessment rubric for any type of DMP. <h3>Learning Outcomes</h3> After completing the workshop, attendees will be able to: 1. Describe the utility of rubrics for evaluating data management plans, and how to apply results in a local context; 2. Develop a new analytic rubric for the assessment of data management plans that are based on funding agency guidelines, and; 3. Utilize an analytic rubric for standardized assessment of data management plans