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E-Portfolios: Educational Policy, Prospects, & Issues

Raj Mehta, PhDRichard Robles, MS, MBAJennifer Colley, LEED AP BD+CNathan Hammitt, LEED GA

National Association of Schools of Art & Design Annual ConferenceOctober 14, 2010

Thursday, October 14, 2010

About the University of Cincinnati’s Honors Program

• An academically challenging environment where passionate professors and peers inspire one another to learn more, do more and be more. Students are given freedom to explore interests and support to achieve goals and dreams.

• Top 5% of UC undergraduate students, from across colleges and disciplines are challenged through honors seminars and experiential learning projects focused on community engagement, global studies, leadership, and research & creative arts


What is a Learning Portfolio

“The Learning Portfolio is a flexible, evidence-based tool that engages

students in a process of continuous reflection and collaborative

analysis of learning. As written text, electronic display or other creative

project, the portfolio captures the scope, richness, and relevance of students’

learning. The portfolio focuses on purposefully and collaboratively

selected reflections and evidence for both improvement and

assessment of student’s learning”

- John Zubizarreta


Electronic Portfolios (E-Portfolios)

• Purposeful collection of student work that exhibits student effort, progress, and achievement of competency(ies)

• Through a course or over time

• The portfolio includes

• An established purpose

• Criteria for selection and assessment

• Evidence of work

• Student reflections

• In the end, the portfolio provides a richer picture of student performance


Impact on the Learning Process

• Capturing and storing evidence, encouraging planning and reflecting

• Scaffolds learning until students are confident to work independently

• Possibility to support faculty and peer feedback and collaboration

• Potential connection in using social software tools


Impact on Learning Outcomes

• Support curriculum outcomes

• Learners develop technical skills through purposeful activity

• Progress and attainment are more obvious

• Allows for experimentation for creativity when scaffolded with faculty expertise

• Institution capable of efficiently viewing results


Benefits Within Integrative Learning

Portfolios can be used to foster integration:

• Within and across disciplines

• Between curriculum & co-curriculum

• Between academic and professional knowledge practice

• At individual and institutional levels

- AAC&U, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching


Evolution of the E-Portfolio

Working Portfolio• Formative assessment•Assessment FOR

learning•Portfolio as PROCESS•A developing, reflective

story

Presentation Portfolio

•Summative assessment

•Assessment OF learning

•Portfolio as Product•A reflective story for an

audience


E-Portfolio Model for Learning


Student Insights & Portfolios


Impact & Implications of Practice

• Functionality, appearance and assessment carry equal weight

• Students question benefits and uses

• Value is demonstrated through frequent, thoughtful and creative use

• Multiple e-portfolio systems within one university is a continuing challenge


Propositions on E-Portfolio Assessment & Evaluation

• For meaningful assessment, interaction of pieces of evidence within an e-portfolio is more important than single pieces of evidence

• Reflection on pieces of evidence within an e-portfolio (and on the e-portfolio as a whole) provides information for assessment that does not pull apart from other means

• E-portfolios enable meaningful comparison of student learning across institutions without standardization

• The material practice of e-portfolio composition generates distinctive knowledge about learning


Resources

• www.iwebfolio.com/public/roblesra

• www.iwebfolio.com/public/colleyja

• www.iwebfolio.com/public/hammerhammitt

• Inter/National Coalition for E-Portfolio Research- www.ncepr.org

• The Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning- www.aaeebl.org

• Becta (UK Government Agency)- becta.org.uk

• Electronic Portfolio Action & Communication- epac.pbworks.com

• Association of American Colleges & Universities- www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-wi09/pr-wi09_index.cfm


http://www.iwebfolio.com/public/roblesra

http://www.iwebfolio.com/public/roblesra

http://www.iwebfolio.com/public/colleyja

http://www.iwebfolio.com/public/colleyja

http://www.ncepr.org

http://www.ncepr.org

http://www.aaeebl.org

http://www.aaeebl.org

http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-wi09/pr-wi09_index.cfm




E-Portfolios: Educational Policy, Prospects, & Issues

Raj Mehta, PhDRichard Robles, MS, MBAJennifer Colley, LEED AP BD+CNathan Hammitt, LEED GA

National Association of Schools of Art & Design Annual ConferenceOctober 14, 2010
