WPA Assessment Institute 2006

Electronic Portfolios, Writing Classrooms, and College Programs: Practices, Theories, Issues, and Challenges 
Leaders: J. Elizabeth Clark, Michael Day, and Kathleen Blake Yancey

 

 

 

13 July 2006

 

 

Assessing ePortfolios:

**You can also access this activity and these ePortfolios by going to our Institute Webpage:  http://www.engl.niu.edu/mday/wpa06.html.

 

Please meet in the following small groups:

 

**LaGuardia ePortfolios and rubrics can be accessed at:

http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/ctl/ep/eportfolios/

**NIU ePortfolios can be accessed at:

Ken Tinnes: http://www.students.niu.edu/~z120512/104.M70/eportfolio/index.html

 

Rubric for Ken: http://www.engl.niu.edu/mday/scoresheet.html

 

Mark Hannah: http://www.students.niu.edu/~Z109187/eportfolio/homepage.html

 

Rubric (assignment) for Mark: http://www.engl.niu.edu/mday/500drafteportf.html

 

—Please note that these ePortfolios are accessible during our meeting time today.  Students have given their permission for you to read and evaluate their ePortfolios for this program.  These student ePortfolios may not be accessible at the conclusion of the WPA Assessment Conference.

 

Group 1:  Charlotte, Becky, Jonikka, Sandra, David

 

ePortfolio Assignments:

 

Gary Cumbo **use LaGuardia’s Basic Writing Rubric

Kirsy Anderson  **use LaGuardia’s Basic Writing Rubric

Mark Hannah

 

 

Group 2:  Linda, Colin, Michelle C., Dee, Ed

 

ePortfolio Assignments:

 

Bernadette Gibbons **use LaGuardia’s Critical Thinking/Reading/Writing Rubric

Mark Hannah

Ken Tinnes

Group 3:  Joseph,  Barbara, Derek, Alison, Scott

ePortfolio Assignments:

Stephanie Ortiz **use LaGuardia’s Basic Writing Rubric

Meghavi Patel **use LaGuardia’s Basic Writing Rubric

Ken Tinnes

Group 4:  Kelly, Patricia , Peggy,  Alice,  Gerri

ePortfolio Assignments:

Bernadette Gibbons **use LaGuardia’s Critical Thinking/Reading/Writing Rubric

Mark Hannah

Ken Tinnes

Group 5:  Melinda, Bill, Laura, Marcia, Stephanie 

ePortfolio Assignments:

Natesa Parker **use LaGuardia’s Critical Thinking/Reading/Writing Rubric

Mark Hannah

Ken Tinnes

Group 6:  Lori, Michelle S., Linda, Elizabeth, Adrien

 

ePortfolio Assignments:

Omar Garcia Navarro **use LaGuardia’s Critical Thinking/Reading/Writing Rubric

Renan Tafur  **use LaGuardia’s Critical Thinking/ReadingWriting Rubric

Mark Hannah

 

Step 1.  Review the Rubric for Assessing the ePortfolio:  (5 minutes)
Working individually, please review the scoring rubric for the ePortfolio you will read.  Each group has 3 ePortfolios.  Working individually, you will choose 1 ePortfolio to read and score. 

 

Step 2.  Review 1 Assigned ePortfolio Individually: (20 minutes)

Spend 15 minutes carefully reviewing one of the ePortfolios assigned to your group.  Spend the last 5 minutes looking over the 2 other ePortfolios briefly.  Before you return your small group, please write down—so that you can identify for the large group—your overall assessment of the ePortfolio and your reactions to using the institutional or programmatic rubric.

 

Step 3.   Small Group Discussion:  (15 minutes)

 

 

What are some pedagogical implications of the ePortfolio? As an instructor, what would you like to emulate in what you’ve seen today?  As a WPA, what you would like to emulate for your program?  How can these ePortfolios  inform your goals as a faculty member?  As a WPA?  What are the uses of ePortfolio for hypertextual and multimedia folio thinking?  How might this enhance your current assessment process?  What problems or issues do you perceive in using ePortfolios for teaching and for assessment?  What are the technological challenges you face in using ePortfolios?  How do the rubrics function in assessing ePortfolios?  Similarly or differently than a traditional portfolio review?  Does this impact the overall assessment of the writing in a different way?  Why or why not?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

** This activity is modified from the LaGuardia Community College’s ePortfolio Leadership Team’s materials.  JEC/7/2006.