Project Director: Will Wharfe Senior Developer: Karim Derrick “Mapping capability: lessons learned from providing web- based eportfolios since 2002 through the Managed Assessment Portfolio System (MAPS)” TAG Learning

What is MAPS? System HELPS TO ACCELERATE THE LEARNING PROCESS Portfolio A PERSONAL SPACE FOR EVERY TEACHER AND PUPIL Assessment ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING Managed SECURE. HOSTED. BACKED-UP. RELIABLE.

How do you best assess a pupil’s capability?

How do I best assess my capability?

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The need for managed ePortfolios  Assessment for Learning vs. Assessment of Learning  Making the data more accessible  Making the assessments using digital copy, not paper copy  Aiding transition of pupils from school to school  The need to moderate (standardise) teacher assessments  ICT is assessed by portfolio  Curriculum requires schools to assess ICT capability

 Difficult to manage moderation of teacher assessments  Reams and reams of print outs  Loss of work  Lack of continuity between school phases Paper-based portfolio assessment

 Be low cost  Be web based  Support planning/review/evaluation  Facilitate evidence that will show student's ICT capability - not just samples of work  Support those charged with helping raise standards  Support both teaching and learning Requirements of the ePortfolio

How does MAPS work?

Teacher eportfolio

Tasks portfolio

MAPS Task

Evidence

Evidence

Evidence

Reflections, moderation notes and messages are also evidence Dialogue

Self-assessment

Teacher assessment

Eportfolios can help manage assessment Data

ePortfolio gallery

Create/import tasks Assign tasks Upload/review/amend work Share/ moderate assessment Assess work

Using eportfolios to submit coursework to awarding bodies

Student working on OCR coursework unit

Student hands in work

Teacher tags files against OCR mark scheme

Teacher adds references

Files are linked from the mark scheme

Teacher can now mark work

Teacher marking work

Teacher can check files tagged to criterion

Teacher ready to submit coursework to OCR

e-moderation: LIVE! King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, Birmingham

Teacher’s portfolio

Coursework summary

Example of coursework

Tagged criteria links

File, reference and criterion

Sample of work

Comparing files tagged to the same criterion for different students

e-moderator’s view (OCR)

Select work based on rank order

View or moderate work

Input moderated mark and comment

How has MAPS been used?

 Over 60,000 students, 300 schools and 41 ed.authorities  Some schools use it with all pupils in all subjects all day...  Evidencing ICT capability from year 3 to year 13  Addressing issues in transition between school phases How has MAPS been used?  The “glass safe”  Some students in their 4 th year using MAPS

 More and more emphasis on self-assessment  More ways to share and edit tasks and resources  More data storage!  Developing the portfolios for the teachers, examiners and administrators – they are learners too! How has the system developed?

Getting users up and running quickly  Identify stakeholders, and their needs  Identify and eliminate barriers, one by one  Collaborate, innovate, integrate - three steps to making my system our system - and hence easing the process of adoption and ownership  Providing helpful support and training  Nurture early adopters

The future for MAPS  Accreditation Working closely with OCR and SQA awarding bodies to allow schools and individuals to submit coursework via their ePortfolios.  More tools for the students Focus on providing ways for students to choose how they present themselves and their evidence.  LifeLong Learning E.g: what happens to student portfolios after they leave their school?  Personal development plans Providing teachers and students with a PDP tool which is linked in to the student’s evidence of work.  Distance Travelled Timelines Further develop the ways that it is possible to view a student’s progress and the evidence of that progress.

Personal Development Plan

Distance Travelled Timeline

Distance Travelled Timeline

Project Director: Will Wharfe Senior Developer: Karim Derrick