Assessing with ePortfolios (2024)

FAQs

What is ePortfolio assessment? ›

An e-portfolio is an electronic format for students to: record their work, goals, and achievements. reflect on their learning. share their learning and receive feedback and feedforward.

E-portfolios provide a rich resource for both students and faculty to learn about achievement of important outcomes over time, make connections among disparate parts of the curriculum, gain insights leading to improvement, and develop identities as learners or as facilitators of learning.

An ePortfolio is a digital portfolio or an “electronic portfolio.” This digital collection of achievements and artifacts represent the competencies, skills and accomplishments of a student. These materials can include a variety of resources such as: Essays or Articles. Graphics or Flyers.

An ePortfolio has the potential to demonstrate professional and personal growth, exemplify evidence-based practice and provide a planning space for future professional development needs and experiences.

If holistically evaluating an ePortfolio, the faculty might consider a rubric containing criteria related to selection of artifacts, reflection/critique, use of multimedia, citations, navigation, layout and readability.

One of the main benefits of portfolios is that they can provide a more authentic, holistic, and personalized assessment of student learning. Portfolios can capture the complexity, depth, and diversity of student work, and reflect their individual strengths, goals, and passions.

The main components of portfolio assessment are student choice (Paris &Ayres, 1994), engagement in self-reflection (Yancey, 1996), and evidence of growth (Paulson et al., 1991). Effective portfolio assessment will take into consideration the following aspects (Herman et al., 1996, p. 29):

There are three key principles that portfolios should reflect: content, learning, and equity. Portfolios allow students to demonstrate their learning in different styles. When using portfolio assessment, the criteria must be clear to students and teachers.

How is a portfolio an effective authentic assessment? ›

A portfolio assessment is often deemed an authentic form of assessment because it includes authentic samples of a student's work. Many advocates of the portfolio assessment argue that this makes it a superior assessment tool because it is demonstrates learning and growth over an extended period of time.

However, disadvantages are evident. The portfolio author's ability for self-expression is limited. Some customized systems are expensive to implement and maintain. Proprietary structures and file formats may limit portfolio portability.

“e-Portfolio” is short for “electronic portfolio”. It's much like the traditional portfolio of an artist – a way of making one's work and learning visible to others – but in an electronic format that makes it easily accessible on the Web.

A portfolio assessment is a systematic and organized collection of evidence used by the teacher and student to monitor the growth of the student's knowledge, skills, and attitudes in a specific subject area. The portfolio is a collection of students' work representing a selection of performances.

An e-portfolio refers to a teaching portfolio which is available online. It is a structured, reflective summary of documentation that discloses an applicant's approach to teaching practice and gives some indication of his/her effectiveness as a teacher.

A well-developed ePortfolio gives your potential employer an deeper insight into the scope of your experience, education, evaluations, and awards. It provides them with a more in-depth look into who you are as a professional.