ePortfolios: Advantages and Disadvantages for assessment

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@t_eloise Dr. Eloise Tan, Learning Innovation
Unit, Dublin City University
eportfolio/index.html

LI502: Assessment and Feedback in the
Online Environment


ePortfolios: possibilities for
self/peer assessment, and
feedback


JISC: Effective Practice with e-
Portfolios (2008)

• Case studies
• Multiple perspectives:
learners, practitioners, institutio
n, audience
• 6 steps to ePortfolio based
learning

• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/doc
uments/publications/effectivepra
cticeeportfolios.pdf


Work of Dr. Helen Barrett
 Website: http://electronicportfolios.org/
 Twitter: @eportfolios
 Collection of presentations on SlideShare:
http://www.slideshare.net/eportfolios

Unit, Dublin City University http://electronicportfolios.org/myportfolio/LecShare/

Research on ePortfolios and
Assesment
Jafari & Kaufman, Eds.
Cambridge (2010) (2006)


Mason, R., Pegler, C. and Weller, M. (2004), E-portfolios:
an assessment tool for online courses. British Journal of
Educational Technology, 35: 717–727

ABSTRACT:

This article considers the various uses of e-
portfolios in an educational context and looks
at the particular characteristics of the
electronic version of portfolios. It then focuses
on the application of the e-portfolio as an
assessment method. A case is made for the
use of the e-portfolio as an appropriate end of
course assessment process where learning
objects are the basis of the course design.
Evaluation data from such a course is
presented. This is a post-graduate online
course run by the Institute of Educational
@t_eloise Dr. Eloise Tan, LearningTechnology at the Open University.
Innovation
Unit, Dublin City University Conclusions are drawn from the evaluation

Overview
 ePortfolios:
Definition, components, purposes, challenges, sof
tware
 Case studies: Learner, practitioner, institutional
perspective (JISC pub)
 ePortfolios and Assessment: self/peer
assessment, reflection,and feedback


What is an ePortfolio?

What do we want/need them to
do?
What are your questions about
ePortfolios for assessment?

Definition of ePortfolios (JISC, 2008)

“An e-portfolio is the
product, created by the „The picture has often
learner, a been a complex
collection of digital one, with confusion
artefacts articulating over what
experiences, an e-portfolio is. More
achievements and recently, consensus is
learning.” (p.6) gathering, and clarity
is being brought to the
discussions,
(p.4)

Possible components
Evidence of achievements
Multimedia (podcasts,
(c.v., completed projects,
videos, images)
awards)

Blog Works in progress

ePortfolio


Potential of components
Multimedia (podcasts,
Evidence of videos, images)
achievements
(c.v., completed - Showcase
projects, awards) achievements
- Digital c.v. - Reflection
(podcast/videos)

Blog Works in progress
- Reflection - Assessment for
Learning / Formative
- Peer assessment /
Feedback from peers
feedback from lecturer
and lecturer

ePortfolio


http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2011/
03/e-portfolios-7-reasons-why-i-dont-
want.html

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Tan, Learning Innovation
benefits-keeping-success-journal/

http://www.gilbertglass.com/services

Audience / views
(Mahara)
http://www.batipi.com/
conference-call-
global-meeting/

http://www.researc
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germany.de/16844
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http://lgo.mit.edu/n
ews/articles/clfm_
mini_classes/clfm_
http://www.highener mini_classes.html
gyforlife.com/articleli
st/34-general-
health/104-just-say-
it-how-to-handle-a-
tough-conversation

Search „Eportfolio examples‟ from
your own discipline

http://www.blog.qarea.com/news/web-search-requires-shake-
up/

Examples of ePortfolios
 Compiled from the University of Waterloo
http://cte.uwaterloo.ca/KSU/Sites_with_examples
_of_student_eportfolios.pdf
 Helen Barrett‟s compilation
http://electronicportfolios.com/ALI/samples.html
 A Thai Digital Collective online
http://www.portfolios.net/profile/nontoxic


(possible) Objectives ePortfolios

Assess

Reflect Collect


Some opportunities with ePortfolios
 Lifelong learning (take it with them after they are
finished)
 Establish a positive digital identity
 An accessible repository of student artefacts over
the years
 Paperless marking
 Learn technical skills
 Encourage showcasing of work (assessments
usually a private matter)
 Visual and digital literacies

What could be some challenges or
unintended consequences of using
ePortfolios?
 Enter into chat or raise hand to use Talk button


Case studies
 There are 6 case studies presented in the JISC
publication, two for each perspective:
Learner, Practitioner, Institutional

 Choose a case study, while reading make note of:
 Lessons learned
 What would you want to replicate?
 What challenges might you face?

 We will come back and share


Designing an ePortfolio (JISC, pp.36-
37, 2008)

Define Understand Prepare Engage Implement Review


Some ePortfolio tools
 Mahara
 Google Sites
 Collection of tools
http://www.acenet.edu/Content/NavigationMenu/P
rogramsServices/cii/res/assess/eportfolio1.htm
 Helen Barrett‟s online portfolio adventure
(constructs the same portfolio in different tools to
show differences)
http://electronicportfolios.com/myportfolio/version
s.html#18


Assessing ePortfolios
 What do you want to assess?
 The individual artefacts?
 The ePortfolio as a whole, developed over time?
 The way the students interact with each other?
(Commenting, reviewing, collaborating)
 The presentation of the ePortfolio?
(Design, navigation, ease of use)
 Who do you want to do the assessing?
 Students can self assess, peer assess (commenting)
 When do you want to assess?
 Formative assessment: Could provide feedback at timed
intervals, asking to students to upload


Keep in mind:
You might not want to assess the ePortfolio, it might
be used as a file folder for artefacts that are
assessed previously… let the pedagogy lead the
technology

Institutional pushes for ePortfolios might be looking
for a „file folder‟, „showcase‟, option. Different from
ePortfolios for assessment.


Rubrics for ePortfolios
 Generic rubric for ePortfolios, adapted from
(Vandervelde, 2004)
http://www.danwilton.com/eportfolios/rubric.php
 General rubric from Saltlake Community College
http://www.aacu.org/meetings/annualmeeting/AM12
/documents/hubertGeneralEducationePortfolioHolis
ticAssessmentRubric.pdf
 University of New South Wales explains issues in
assessing ePortfolios
http://teaching.unsw.edu.au/printpdf/535


Peer Assessment
 Need to scaffold the practice of commenting, go
beyond the „Like‟ button phenomenon

 Set guidelines: netiquette, how many times you
want them to comment, appropriate
quality, quantity, and content
 Model good „commenting‟ behaviour
 Types of comments:
summarising, critiquing, comparing, continuing
the conversation, praising… „Comment‟ can mean
many things!

Feedback
 Set guidelines for formal and informal feedback
(don‟t want to feel like you need to comment on
everything and at the same depth). Be wary of
Feedback Overload!
 Give students notice when you will be dropping in
to give formal feedback, give them a chance to
tidy up
 With Mahara you can control who sees what you
write, so feedback can still be one to one
 Feedback, feed forward, feed up


Current Featured Resource on
Moodle

• JISC: Effective Practice with e-
Portfolios (2008)
• Case studies
• Multiple perspectives: learners,
practitioners, institution,
audience
• 6 steps to ePortfolio based
learning

• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/doc
uments/publications/effectivepra
cticeeportfolios.pdf


Excellent collection of ePortfolio
resources
 http://www.scoop.it/t/e-portfolios-in-practice


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