This rubric helps you codify observed behaviors that align with the AAC&U definition of the aspects of intercultural competence, including those of communication, openness/respect, and empathy. In addition, it addresses tolerance of ambiguity and orientation towards knowledge. 

This assessment measures reflections in journals or blogs using five categories of data: culture shock, communication challenge, cultural appreciation, cross-cultural comparison, and (self-reported) adaptive behavior.  If you find that your learners' reflections don't yield much evidence of empathy, self-awareness or openness; this is a good rubric to use for amassing evidence of intercultural learning. (It's also a possible indication that you need to change your reflection prompts.)

This rubric helps one measure 1. Communication (clarity and depth). 2. Openness (breadth & fairness). 3. Self-Awareness (ability to describe one's own academic engagement & personal growth). 

Developed by a team of award-winning Purdue graduate students (who have since all gone on to tenure-track positions around the world) this coding scheme helps make one make sense of writing about identity.  Examples are given.

This collection archives readings which address the more inclusive nature of qualitative research, the aptness of qualitative methods for institutional research and at least one focus group protocol (question set) for returning study abroad participants.

The Intercultura organization, a non-profit research institute based in Italy, has developed a rubric, logbook and teacher's observation guide, which taken together provide an authentic multi-methods way of making sense of student learning from study abroad.  Perhaps even more important, it was developed specifically for use in secondary school contexts.  The rubric itself was influenced deeply by the AAC&U rubric, retaining curiosity & self-awareness from that conceptualization of intercultural competence. Additional constructs it measures are: adaptability, conflict resolution, critical reflection, respect for diversity and knowledge of the local context and language. Everything in the toolkit was originally developed in Italian, but is now also available in English.