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Keys to Developing Effective Student Electronic Portfolios

Learn about Wesleyan University's electronic portfolio system, including access for students and faculty, strategic solutions, purpose, and institutional issues. Discover how electronic portfolios enhance advising and self-assessment. Gain insights into the lessons learned and the potential benefits for your institution. For more information, download the PowerPoint presentation.

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Keys to Developing Effective Student Electronic Portfolios

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  1. Keys to Developing Effective Student Electronic Portfolios Ganesan Ravishanker Billy Weitzer Wesleyan University CUMREC Annual Meeting May 14, 2001 Phoenix, AZ

  2. Keys to Developing Effective Student Electronic Portfolios to download the PowerPoint presentation, go to: http://wweitzer.web.wesleyan.edu/cumrec

  3. Keys to Developing Effective Student Electronic Portfolios • Wesleyan’s Electronic Portfolio • All of Wesleyan’s students and faculty have access to portfolios. Each student has a Web site that he or she develops over time, which includes a complete official record of completed courses with grades, courses desired, papers written, audio and video clips, artwork, goals and accomplishments. Faculty advisors have access to their advisees’ portfolios. Students can set security to permit others to have access as well. CUMREC Annual Meeting Phoenix, AZ 5/13/01

  4. Keys to Developing Effective Student Electronic Portfolios • Strategic Solutions • Wesleyan’s electronic portfolio will not be the perfect solution for your institution. • Electronic portfolios should enable an institution to achieve goals. These goals must fit into the institution’s culture and mission. • As you investigate the potential benefits of electronic portfolios for your institution, keep in mind the broad perspective presented today rather than the specific details of Wesleyan’s solution. CUMREC Annual Meeting Phoenix, AZ 5/13/01

  5. Keys to Developing Effective Student Electronic Portfolios • The Portfolio Clearinghouse • www.aahe.org/teaching/portfolio.db.html • Portfolios vary in four ways: • Target populations: students, faculty, institutions • Content: coursework, reflections, samples of best work • Purpose: assessment, self-presentation, reflection on growth • Media: Web, CD-ROM, video, paper, some combination CUMREC Annual Meeting Phoenix, AZ 5/13/01

  6. Keys to Developing Effective Student Electronic Portfolios enhanced advising Wesleyan University curricular coherence Kalamazoo College self-assessment Portland State University student assessment CUMREC Annual Meeting Phoenix, AZ 5/13/01

  7. Keys to Developing Effective Student Electronic Portfolios • What are the purposes of the portfolio? • implemented as part of faculty legislation on curricular renewal • Wesleyan has few requirements and no core curriculum • electronic portfolio supports individualized curricular coherence without imposing a core • the portfolio is designed to accomplish this primarily by enhancing advising CUMREC Annual Meeting Phoenix, AZ 5/13/01

  8. Keys to Developing Effective Student Electronic Portfolios • What institutional issues must be addressed? • advice from our committee was to create something accessible for everyone • the faculty focus group asked us to streamline: remove extraneous links • maintain standard format for faculty convenience • encourage student use without imposing requirements CUMREC Annual Meeting Phoenix, AZ 5/13/01

  9. Keys to Developing Effective Student Electronic Portfolios • Once the electronic portfolio is in place, how is it being used? • advisors are pleased with having information in one place • quieter students gain a voice • busy students gain organizational and assessment tools • if faculty use it, students will use it. • more advising resources and tools will build on the sense of the portfolio as academic “homebase” for students and faculty CUMREC Annual Meeting Phoenix, AZ 5/13/01

  10. Keys to Developing Effective Student Electronic Portfolios • What are the lessons learned? • engage in continual review of intent • develop appropriate means of assessment for various stages • have a promotion plan based on the mission of the portfolio • include resources that students and faculty seek daily • keep mission of portfolio in mind as portals become popular CUMREC Annual Meeting Phoenix, AZ 5/13/01

  11. Keys to Developing Effective Student Electronic Portfolios to download the PowerPoint presentation, go to: http://wweitzer.web.wesleyan.edu/cumrec

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