E Portfolios For Teachers

ePortfolios for Teacher Candidate Assessment: Preparing for Institutional Assessment

Dana Abbott, Carol Rasowky, College of St. Rose & Judy Teng Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Science

Functions

• Multiple portfolios
• Multimedia supported
• Multiple versions of artifacts
• Multiple audiences for respective portfolios
• Data, artifacts collected
• Report aggregated

Choice factors:

• ITS supported
• Reviewed market / products
  • Contacts with vendors
  • Rubric created with input of faculty needs
    • Assessment, presentation, technology, company profile
  • Selected demo
  • iWebfolio selected

Pilot Project

• Education - Assessment Portfolio
• Exploratory program - learning portfolio
• Templates set up
  • Teacher Education
    1. List of artifacts
    2. Resume
    3. Statement of Educational Philosophy
  • Principles and professional standards
  • Elements with indicators for levels of performance
  • Rubrics/instructions included

ePortfolio Cohort Site

• ePortfolio FAQ
• Faculty resources - research studies, projects from other institutions
• Student resources - directions for each stage
• LaGuardia Grant - Collaborative faculty & instructional technology

Assessment portfolio

• Require quality work, enhanced by multimedia, increase information literacy
• Included digitized rubrics for feeback, student access, documentation
• Alignment with professional standards (NCATE, NAEYC)

Components of the portfolio

1. Collection of artifacts
2. Reflections on each of 5 principles of practice
3. Rationale statements

Portfolio Development

• Orientation to Portfolio: 0 cr. intro to rubric
• Student Teaching Semester - also take portfolio course
• About My Portfolio gives artifacts
• Portfolio can be locked after it's done
• Portfolio can accept multimedia files and have them be protected.
• Easy to create links between artifacts & multimedia
• Permission obtained from family and teacher candidate

Review process

• Teacher candidates present portfolio to 2 person review team, FT Faculty & professional from the field
• Reviewers evaluate and complete the final rating

Questions:

• Sharing
  • Password protected & customizable
  • Can limit on when it's available, permissions of user (review/comment vs. view)
• Cost
  • Approx. $25 / year; notified before expiry
  • No cost for faculty member to view and comment