scaling up: documenting eportfolio progress
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Scaling Up: Documenting
ePortfolio ProgressLinda AnstendigSamantha Egan
Beth Gordon KlingnerThomas Hull
Jim StenersonAndrew Wier
AAEEBL Conference August 1, 2013
Teaching Circles
Tenure & Promotion
Digital Commons
LinkedIn & ePs
Assessment Pilots
Reporting
KPIs
eTerns Department Initiatives
Teaching Circles
Student Development Career Services
Research
Making Connections Grant
MUG
Contest Winners
Connect to Learn Grant
Weaving ePortfolios in the Pace
Culture
Teaching & Learning
Assessment
CareerStudent Development
Tenure & Promotion
Departmental Approach: Biology• Tenure and promotion• Biology pilot
– Independent Research • Lab notebook
– Introductory Microbiology • Semester projects on Bacterial Phyla• Review paper, news articles, images, videos, peer
feedback• Material from ePortfolios included in course final exam
Microbiology Student ePortfolios
Quantitative Data: Reporting
• Custom usage reports for Mahara• KPI development
– Generating KPI data
Mahara Custom Report Sample
KPI Sample
Qualitative Data: Student-Faculty Research Project
• Conducted a series of interviews with students on their perceptions of the benefits ePortfolio
Qualitative Data: Spring Contest Entries
Tenure and Promotion
• ePortfolios Used for Developing Electronic Dossiers
• Workshops• Reviewers’ buy-in• Positive Feedback• Year 3 – Institutionalized
Scaling Up Projects: Assessment Project
• Goal – To study the relationship between strong ePortfolio usage over time and grades and overall student engagement as shown in NSSE results.
• We will work with our programmers to define a new group of “super users” to track
• We will identify their first log-in date and their University ID so we can compare to other reports
“The ePortfolio showed me so much. When I went back and read the introduction to myself, I honestly felt so proud of myself. I didn’t think that whatever I was thinking to myself or what was wandering in my brain would be well written in the introduction. But I was impressed, by what I wrote…This ePortfolio showed a great part of me, I even saw it when I attached the resume, I didn’t realize all my accomplishments I have done in high school. This actually made me reflect back on how well I have done these past few years, and I hope that at Pace I will reach for everything I am set to achieve!”-Kenya V., Pace Prep student
Scaling Up Projects: Pace Prep 2013
• ePortfolio webpage: www.pace.edu/eportfolio
• ePortfolio Blog: http://eportfolio.blogs.pace.edu
• Mahara User Group Facebook Group: Search “Mahara User Group” on FB
• Contact us: [email protected]
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