This post is by Justin Wells, Executive Director of Envision Learning Partners. Portfolio assessment has been around for a long time, and the practice appears to be growing. It’s easy to see why. A ...

They’re not just evaluation tools anymore. Savvy educators are seeing endless ways to exploit the power of the ePortfolio — and you can, too. At Bentley College (MA), the interdisciplinary Liberal ...

Capstone courses integrate knowledge, concepts, and skills associated with an entire sequence of study in a program. This method of assessment is unique because the courses themselves become the ...

As California schools increasingly focus on preparing students for college and careers, a growing number of educators are turning to end-of-year “portfolios” as indicators of whether students have ...

As the shift toward digital everything takes hold in universities all over the world, it's not surprising that the the next generation of student assessment is the electronic portfolio. Campus ...

ABSTRACT This study explored the reliability and validity of teacher assessment under a Web-based portfolio assessment environment (or Web-based teacher portfolio assessment). Participants were 72 ...

During a recent visit to our elementary art classroom, I saw students in various stages of their personal learning projects. Some were heavily engaged in their work within the medium of their choice, ...

Arkansas and Wisconsin have dropped portfolio assessments for English-language learners after receiving letters from the U.S. Department of Education saying the states had to prove those tests were ...

Direct Measures of student learning consider actual student work or behavior as evidence of student learning outcomes. Direct measures are most often drawn from student work embedded in a course (such ...

All students pursuing an M.S. in Library and Information Science (MSLIS) and M.S. Museums and Digital Culture are required to create a Portfolio that must be approved by their faculty advisor before ...