WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

Workshop location:  RB 284 Computer Classroom
Morning meetings 10 - 12 am
Afternoon meetings  1-4 pm

Main resource:  Barbara Cambridge, ed. Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices for Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Washington, D.C.: American Association for Higher Education, 2001.

Additional resource: Rich's Works Cited

last revised June 27 2002 4:30 pm
 
Morning Topics  10 - 12 am Afternoon Topics  1- 4 pm
Tuesday, 
June 25
Workshop Overview

Portfolios and Performance Assessment: 
What are they and why are they "popular"?

Questions to be Addressed

Resources for Reading:

Jeffrey Young, “Creating Online Portfolios Can Help Students See ‘Big Picture,’ Colleges Say.Chronicle of Higher Education 21 Feb 2002. 

Carl Whithaus, Review of Electronic Portfolios in Kairos 7.1

Willa Wolcott and Sue Legg, An Overview of Writing Assessment, 1-9 (handout)

Barbara Cambridge, "Electronic Portfolios as Knowledge Builders," Electronic Portfolios, 1-11

Kathleen Blake Yancey, "Digitized Student Portfolios," Electronic Portfolios, 15-30
 

Questions to be Addressed

Resources for Reading:

Assessment of Majors in Our Department: Historical Patterns and Plans

Departmental Assessment Plan, from 1995 self-study report (handout; P. White, 1994) 

Portfolios rationale and process (handout; Hanson, 1993)
 

Wednesday, June 26 The Teacher Education Portfolio Initiative and its Impact on English Assessment

Assessment of English Majors and Programs by Portfolio

Questions to be Addressed

Resources for Reading:

PT3 Portfolio Website (U.S. Dept of Education Grant at BSU)

Christine Hult, "Using On-Line Portfolios to Assess English Majors at Utah State University", Electronic Portfolios, 60-70
 

Pilot Electronic Portfolio Efforts in ENG 444

Resources for Reading:

W. W. Newbold, “The ‘Autobiography’ Model For Developmental Reflection.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 6.2. Fall 2001.

Demonstration Portfolios
 

Thursday, 
June 27
Hyperlinking and Reflection 

Options for e-portfolio creation -- 
Common Tools, WWW
Use of departmental intranet

Begin mini-portfolio project 

Workshop Session for Learning Portfolio
Friday, 
June 28

Learning Portfolios completion and demonstrations/debriefing
Planning for Implementation

Questions to be Addressed

Resources for Reading:

Kathleen Blake Yancey, "General Patterns and the Future," Electronic Portfolios, 83-87

Workshop evaluation surveys