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


This day-long institute will address the various questions that arise for WPAs thinking about, planning, or implementing electronic portfolios. What are they? How are they similar to and different from print portfolios? What are the options for software, and how do they compare? How do eportfolios and the need to assess them affect faculty development needs and procedures? How are eportfolios assessed? Once implemented, how can digital portfolios change an institution's understanding and expectations of assessment? What role might they play in a long-term assessment plan? Not least, what are likely to be the questions around electronic portfolios in the next five years?



SCHEDULE

9:00    Welcome! Overview of the institute and schedule for the day
9:10    Introductions Who are you, what is your knowledge/experience with portfolios; with digital technology; purpose for attendance?
9:30   Eportfolio overview
What’s an electronic portfolio; what forms do eportfolios take; and what’s the role of reflection?  A Heuristic for the Design and Creation of Student Electronic Portfolios
10:15  BREAK

10:30  Exemplar One
Northern Illinois University model, issues and questions
11:00  Exemplar Two
LaGuardia Community College model, issues, and questions
11:30    Review of Portfolios Exploring Eportfolios on the Web
12:00    LUNCH
1:00    Discussion of reviewed portfolios See instructions in Exploring Eportfolios on the Web
1:45    Planning time Refer to A Heuristic for the Design and Creation of Student Electronic Portfolios
2:45    BREAK
3:00    Scoring Guides and Scoring Portfolios Electronic Portfolio Rubric Activity
3:45    Closing Reflection
What will you take back with you to try out in your local context?  Why?


RESOURCES
        

Webboard Discussion Forum
for WPA 2006 Assessment Intitute on Electronic Portfolios
http://webboard.engl.niu.edu/?boardid=mday

Organizations

National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research (NCEPR)
http://ncepr.org/ncepr/drupal/

Student Affairs Professionals in Higher Education
http://www.naspa.org/

Helen Barrett and the Reflect Initiative
http://www.taskstream.com/pub/reflect/helen.asp

Eportfolio Consortium
http://www.eportconsortium.org/

EDUCAUSE: EDUCAUSE Review and EDUCAUSE Quarterly
http://www.educause.edu/er/index.asp?bhcp=1

Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI)
http://www.osportfolio.org/

LaGuardia Community College's ePortfolio Website
http://eportfolio.lagcc.cuny.edu


Meetings

IUPUI Assessment Institute: October 2006
http://www.planning.iupui.edu/conferences/national/nationalconf.html

NASPA: March-April 2007
http://www.2007jointmeeting.org/index.cfm

National Council of Teachers of English: November 2006
http://www.ncte.org/profdev/conv/annual/124264.htm

Conference on College Composition and Communication: March 2007
http://www.ncte.org/cccc/conv

Computers and Writing: May 2007
http://www.english.wayne.edu/People/faculty/ricej/cw/application.html
http://englishweb.clas.wayne.edu/~cw07/trailer_cw2.mov

Council of Writing Program Administrators: July 2007
http://wpacouncil.org/

International Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: November 2006
http://www.issotl.indiana.edu/ISSOTL/

Eifel ePortfolio Conference
http://www.eife-l.org/news/ep2006/call/


Bibliographies

Selected (and partially annotated) Bibliography (K. Yancey, compiler)
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:1vmqJGqqdgIJ:www.clemson.edu/1941studio/bibliography.pdf+clemson+composition+portfolios&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3

Selected NCEPR Bibliography (in progress)
http://ncepr.org/wiki/index.php?Bibliography

ePortfolio Bibliogarphy compiled by Bradley Peters of Northern Illinois University
http://www.eportfolio.lagcc.cuny.edu/bibliography.html



Created July 9, 2006
by Michael Day