Portfolios can take several forms and serve different purposes. Developmental portfolios demonstrate student skill progression over time through self-assessment and feedback. Assessment portfolios evaluate competency against standards. Showcase portfolios highlight exemplary work for employment. Most portfolios are hybrids that incorporate elements of development, assessment and showcase. Effective portfolios include student information, artifacts, reflections, and standards-aligned assessments to document growth and skill attainment. Various tools can be used to create digital portfolios for students, faculty, and assessment.

1. Portfolios in the Classroom Documenting and Showcasing Student and Faculty Work

2. What is our current understanding?

3. Understanding Assessment Pre or Diagnostic Formative Summative Auditive vs. Educative

4. Types of Portfolios Developmental/Growth Portfolios: demonstrate the advancement and development of student skills over a period of time. Developmental portfolios are considered works-in-progress and include both self-assessment and reflection/feedback elements. The primary purpose is to provide communication between students and faculty.

5. Assessment Portfolios Assessment Portfolios: demonstrate student competence and skill for well-defined areas. These may be end-of-course or program assessments primarily for evaluating student performance. The primary purpose is to evaluate student competency as defined by program standards and outcomes.

6. Showcase Portfolios Showcase Portfolios: demonstrate exemplary work and student skills. This type of portfolio is created at the end of a program to highlight the quality of student work. Students typically show this portfolio to potential employers to gain employment at the end of a degree program.

7. Hybrid Portfolios Hybrids: Most portfolios are hybrids of the three types of portfolios listed above. Rarely will you find a portfolio that is strictly used for assessment, development or showcase purposes.

8. "a portfolio without standards, goals and/or reflection is just a fancy resume, not an electronic portfolio." Helen Barrett

9. Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools (2002) http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10129&page=119#

10. Forcing Differentiation Everybody’s cards are different and they can choose how to play their hand!

12. http://electronicportfolios.com/portfolios/HongKong/html/web_data/file4.htm

14. Portfolio FrameworkDanielsen & Abrutyn & ASCD, 1997 Collection Selection (based on standards) Reflection Projection or Direction Helen Barrett Update Additional Component Connection

15. More Elaborate FrameworkRobin Fogarty, Kay Burke, and Susan Belgrad (1994, 1996) PROJECT purposes and uses COLLECT and organize SELECT valued artifacts INTERJECT personality REFLECT metacognitively INSPECT and self-assess goals PERFECT, evaluate, and grade (if you must) CONNECT and conference INJECT AND EJECT to update RESPECT accomplishments and show pride

16. Why Portfolios?

17. What to Include Student Information: name and basic info Table of Contents: or various way to display links to contents of the portfolio Learner Goals Curricular standards and/or criteria: used to align the contents of the portfolio to institutional, departmental or course curriculum Rubrics: can be used to assess student work. A rubric is a criteria-rating scale, which provides the instructor with a tool to track student performance. They also inform students of the course/departmental/institutional expectations and should be aligned with standards. Guidelines: used to select appropriate artifacts to keep the collection from growing haphazardly Artifacts: examples of student work including documents, images, video, audio, etc. (can be chosen by student, instructor or both) Instructor feedback Self-reflection pieces: a portfolio without reflections is just a multimedia presentation or an electronic resume

18. Steps Define Goals/Pedagogical Purpose/Context Determine Audience Active, Working Portfolio Stage Reflective/Metacognitive Stage Connective/Peer Review/Social Learning Stage Presentation/Culmination Stage

19. Potential (versatile) Tools

20. Selecting a Tool Mahara Google Sites Wikispaces Blogs (Wordpress 3 and new Menus) Moodle Options Commercial – Chalk and Wire

21. Creating A Faculty Portfolio

22. Creating an Assessment Portfolio

23. Bibliography Images YellowMan w/briefcase-http://www.flickr.com/photos/lumaxart/2147827053/in/photostream/ Question Marks -http://www.flickr.com/photos/42788859@N00/318947873/ Swiss Army Knife - http://www.flickr.com/photos/80516279@N00/2274372747/ Cards - http://www.flickr.com/photos/20683895@N00/2985280926/ Content Helen Barrett Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools (2002) http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10129&page=119# http://electronicportfolios.com/portfolios/HongKong/html/web_data/file7.htm http://electronicportfolios.com/portfolios/EPDevProcess.html