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STUDENT PORTFOLIOS

ELECTRONIC PORTFOLIOS

Definition:

As with Student Portfolios, Electronic Portfolios represent a selection of samples of student work, (a resume of sorts) in a single discipline, or multiple disciplines, throughout the assessment period. The Electronic Portfolio gives students the opportunity to display diverse learning styles through a variety of presentation media and allows faculty to scan collections of work quickly for evidence of specific kinds of learning.

*Note: All advantages, disadvantages and practical suggestions listed for Student Portfolios apply to Electronic Portfolios with the following additions.

Examples:

Electronic Portfolios can include: writing samples, art work, audio files and video clips

Cost:

Turnkey software products such as Grady Profile v.2.3.2 (Macintosh only) by Aurbach & Associates-$1,500 unlimited user license. Other software packages are: The Super School Portfolio Assessment Kit II (Mac & PC) @ $99.95 per classroom, special institutional license pricing available. Portfolio Building by Visions Technology in Education @ $499.95 unlimited license. It is also possible to cobble together the appropriate software tools such as word processing, presentation software, etc. to create a portfolio product, along with an HTML for organizing material on the internet.
Time to design, collect, assess
Electronic storage costs

Advantages:

A variety of multi-media formats may be included in a student’s electronic portfolio, in addition to more traditional papers, problem sets, etc.
Can be easily updated & transported
Takes less physical storage space
Brings an institution’s vision and standards to life for the student
Students take ownership of their digital portfolio
Communicating with digital portfolios is easier than with paper portfolios
Can develop teachers' as well as students' multimedia development skills.
Allows for asynchronous use for both student and faculty
Minimizes administrative processes that can be overwhelming in a paper-based system.
Provides for student-controlled access (other than faculty raters and advisers).
Offers use of search strategies for easy access to artifacts.
Allows faculty scoring results to be automatically logged and aggregated for analysis.
Provides students feedback online.

Disadvantages:

Takes server space
Requires technical support and maintenance
Will require either purchase of portfolio software or local development of software.
Security and confidentiality issues.
Lack of expertise that may be available to develop the electronic platform, requires dedicated support.
Though there are commercial products available, these are generally limited in their ability to meet the specific needs of the institution and may not produce evidence of learning outcomes.

Implementation Suggestions:

It’s important to get an early start generating portfolio artifacts from the beginning of a semester, an academic year, or the college career of a student, depending on the purpose of the portfolio.
Work must be put ahead of time into the purpose and design of the portfolio. For instance, do you want an artifact to demonstrate each learning outcome? Once again, if this portfolio is to be used by a single instructor, then the instructor would spend the time developing it. However, if the portfolio will be used with an identified cohort cross-disciplinary, then a team will need to spend some time in the design and development process.
Creating a table-of-content/index of all the Electronic Artifacts from the beginning aids in finding each artifact.
Be sure to backup and store elsewhere.
Having a well-designed portfolio is critical to both the efficiency and the effectiveness of measuring student outcomes for the purpose of improving the educational process.
It is important to have a mechanism to link the assessment findings to curricular process.
While designing the portfolio, the decision-making process should be inclusive of stakeholders who are affected by the process.

Recommendation:

Developing portfolios of any kind would be very ambitious. This method would be useful for individual faculty who want to track the progress of students in a one-semester class.

It would be possible to move toward course, program and/or institutional portfolios, further down the road in our assessment timeline. We would have to put a great deal of thought into the design and development. In the future we may be able to use some of the artifacts from other assessment methods as the foundation for a portfolio approach.

Bibliography/Resources:

Alverno’s Diagnostic Digital Portfolio

<http://www.alverno.edu/academics/ddp.html>

Barret, Helen. Dr. Helen Barret’s Favorite Links on Alternative Assessment & Electronic Portfolios

<http://transition.alaska.edu/www/Portfolios/bookmarks.html>

Barret, Helen. Electronic Portfolios=Multimedia Development+Portfolio Development: The Electronic Development Process, 2000. <http://transition.alaska.edu/www/portfolios/EPDevProcess.html>

Electronic Portfolio Decisions

<http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/ed/portfolios/article2.html>

Organizational Issues Related to Portfolio Assessment Implementation in the Classroom

<http://ericae.net/pare/getvn.asp?v=7&n=4>

The Portfolio Clearinghouse

<http://www.aahe.org/teaching/portfolio_db.htm>

Portfolio Links. Southeast Missouri State University. 26 August 2002.

<http://education.smsu.edu/peu/student_portfolios/links.htm>

“Table of Contents and Featured Websites: Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices for Students, Faculty and Institutions” AAHE <http://aahe.ital.utexas.edu/electronicportfolios/TOC.html>

Van Kollenburg, Susan E., ed. A Collection of Papers on Self-Study and Institutional Improvement: Proceedings of the 107^th Annual Meeting of the North Central Association: Engaging the Future: Vision, Values, and Validation in the New Educational Marketplace. Chicago, The Higher Learning Commission. 2002.

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