Assessment
Who evaluates ePortfolio work
Throughout the course or program, you can involve others in the evaluation process. Some instructors use student peer review as a way to help students get feedback before submitting artifacts or reflections for a grade. Other instructors solicit experts' review when a student does co-curricular work, such as a field experience class, internship, or oral presentation. If students use an ePortfolio throughout a program, you may construct panels to review final portfolios for completeness, even though the individual artifacts and reflections have already been given grades from the instructors who assigned them. An oral presentation of the portfolio may also be a part of your assessment strategy.
Some programs invite panels of employers from their field to evaluate ePortfolios after students have graduated to solicit feedback about the methods and types of evidence used to demonstrate competencies. The evaluation of individual student assignments happens at the course level. However if assignments are archived in an ePortfolio, instructors can review artifacts themselves, the student's reflections about the value or meaning of each artifact, and different instructors' feedback about the student's work. In this way, the instructors and advisors can collectively track a student's growth and development, and provide formative guidance about next steps or areas to improve. Departments may also have both formative and summative reviews of a cohort or cluster of student portfolios. Here are some WASC guidelines for departments interested in using ePortfolios as an assessment strategy. "Rubrics for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Assessment Processes"
