Discussant Comments

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Discussant Comments

• Electronic Portfolios in Teacher Education
  Current Goals and Future Directions

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Themes

• Change
• JHU process
• Tensions between formative and summative
  (Assessment OF and FOR Learning)
• Separating portfolio from data system (JHU)
• In-house developed tools - not typical of SCDEs
  today
• Reflection (URI)

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Are EPs a good idea?

• Cost Benefits (Tensions)
• Student Learning
• Faculty Needs, Value, Goals
• Program needs Accreditation Review
• Sustainability?

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Caveats for Portfolios

• Job-Related and Authentic
• Representative, Relevant, Proportional
• Documentation and Appeals Process
• Faculty Support System
• Realistic Cut Score
• Alternatives
• Protected Populations
• Reliable Scoring
• Wilkerson Lang (2003)
• Portfolios, the Pied Piper of Teacher
  Certification Assessments Legal and Psychometric
  Issues
• Education Policy Analysis Archives
• http//epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v11n45/

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1. Job-Related and Authentic

• Stand the test that the portfolio is job-related
  and authentic.
• Equivalent to what teachers do with technology
  and portfolios in the classroom.

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2. Representative, Relevant, Proportional

• All criteria used to evaluate the portfolio must
  be relevant to the job of teaching.
• - Wilkerson Lang (2003)

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Critical Success Factors

• CLU Maturation Levels

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The Power of Portfolios

• what children can teach us about learning and
  assessment
• Author Elizabeth Hebert
• Publisher Jossey-Bass
• Picture courtesy of Amazon.com

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Maturity of portfolios

• Gathercoal et. al. Maturation Level
• 1 Scrapbook
• 2 Curriculum Vitae
• 3 Curriculum Collaboration between student and
  faculty
• 4 Mentoring Leading to Mastery
• 5 Authentic Evidence as the Authoritative
  Evidence for assessment, evaluation and reporting

• Hebert (2001) (order of maturity)?
• Folder of childs work
• Collection of childs work?
• Teacher-organized portfolio or curriculum
  portfolio?
• Showcase portfolio or achievement portfolio?
• Progress portfolio?
• Teacher-and-child-organized portfolio?
• Child-organized portfolio?

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Last night

• Portfolios and Reflection in Teaching and Teacher
  Education - SIG Business Meeting
• General concerns about portfolio concept being
  transformed into checklists of competencies
• Are the technological tools driving the process?

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Future?

• International perspectives Lifelong Learning
• Electronic portfolio Personal Learning
  Environment
• Emphasis on reflection over data
  collection/analysis