1. Portfolio Assessment and Design
C. Candace Chou
University of St. Thomas

2. Definition
A goal-driven, organized collection of artifacts that demonstrates a person’s expansion of knowledge and skills over time. (Kilbane & Milman, 2003)

3. An organized, goal-driven documentation of professional growth and achieved competence in teaching
A collection of documents, tangible evidence of the wide range of knowledge, dispositions, and skills that you possess as a growing professional.
Documents are self-selected, reflecting your individuality and autonomy.

4. Types of Portfolio
Professional Portfolio: purposeful compilations of and reflections on a professional’s work, effort, and progress in their field.
Working Portfolio: complete compilations of a person’s work over a period of time.
Presentation Portfolio: “showcase portfolio”, streamline and selective, represent a subset of materials found in a working portfolio

5. Teaching Portfolio
A special type of presentation portfolio that demonstrates the professional competence of anyone who engages in the act of teaching at any academic level.
Artifacts may include curricular units, syllabi, communication with students, writing samples, photographs, and videos.
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) and the Interstate New Teachers Assessment Support Consortium (INTASC) promote teaching portfolio.

6. Digital Teaching Portfolio
a.k.a. electronic portfolios, multimedia portfolios, e-folios, webfolios
Present much of the Teaching Portfolio content in digital format
Use a combination of multimedia technologies, e.g., audio, video, graphics, and text.

7. Working Portfolio Examples
Descriptive: Foster reflection and self- assessment, focus on describing all the steps to learning, e.g., detailed journal or work log.
Learning: Foster reflection and self- assessment, emphasize an individual’s work and learning in progress, e.g., graphic organizers, working drafts, outlines,professional development goals.

8. Presentation Portfolio Examples
Assessment: Mastery of specific objectives and skills, e.g., tests, competencies
Class: illustrate group effort, progress, and accomplishments, e.g., student work
Employment: Resume, transcripts, letter of recommendation
Teaching: teacher and student work samples

9. Advantages of Digital Portfolio
Accessibility
Portability
Creativity
Technology
Self-Confidence
Community

10. Challenges of Digital Portfolio
Knowledge and skill requirements
Professional support
Expensive equipment
Time and Energy
Increased viewer skills and equipment
Presentation that detracts from content

11. Why Portfolio Assessment
Push for authentic assessment: Tracking progress over time and helping individuals learn to assess their own progress
Enhancing teacher professionalism:Aligning with NBPTS, INTASC, NCATE, ISTE established standards
*INTASC: Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium
*NBPTS: National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
*NCATE: National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education
*ISTE: International Society for Technology in Education

12. Professional Standards and Digital Portfolio
NBPTS: requires the submission of a portfolio with a video that demonstrates evidence of teacher competence in various formats for national certification
ISTE: suggests that all pre-service teachers should develop a portfolio of technology-based products.
NCATE: perform-based system of accreditation - a natural fit for portfolio

13. Professional Benefits of Digital Portfolio
Creation of digital teaching portfolios makes teachers learners
Provides opportunities to learn about technology
Improves teachers’ impact on students
Effective tools for demonstrating teacher competence
Helps teachers get jobs
A tool for charting future professional growth

14. Creation of E- Portfolio
Save Artifacts electronically
Document your experiences electronically

15. Stages for Developing E-Portfolio
Decide: the purpose and the audience
Design: the selection of the content
Develop: incorporation of all artifacts
Evaluate: the content and multimedia format

16. Framing Digital Portfolio Around Standards
National standards represent the collective effort of many knowledgeable education professionals
Help teachers examine their knowledge and skills in the education field that are considered good teaching.
National recognized standards have meaning to people in various communities.

17. Ingredients of a Digital Portfolio
Artifacts: tangible evidence that indicates the attainment of knowledge and skills and the ability to apply understanding to complex tasks, e.g., resume, lesson plans, etc.
Supporting Documentation:
Authorship statement
Credits
Rational statement
Permission statement
Table of Content

18. Questions to Help You Reflect on Artifacts
How does tis artifact demonstrate competence in a particular standard or your chosen framework?
Why did I include this artifact? Why is it important to me?
What did I learn as a result of using/creating this artifact?
How would I do things differently as a result of the artifact?

19. Table of Contents (based on INTASC)
Introduction
Subject Matter
Student Learning
Diverse Learners
Instructional Strategies
Learning Environment
Communication and Technology
Planning Instruction
Assessment
Reflection and Professional Development
Collaboration, Ethics, and Relationships
Professional Plans

20. Directions for Introduction
Poem or quote that is meaningful to you, that captures who you are and/or your beliefs about teaching
Current resume
An educator statement, e.g., educational philosophy or teaching beliefs

21. Directions for Section 2 - 11
Begin each section with the title and definition of the standard
List the substandards/competencies for each standard
Narrative or rationale: a written piece per standard that links the standard to the evidence collected.
Use artifacts per standard for evidence

22. Directions for Professional Plan
Educator Development Plan (EDP)
Personal life-long learning plan

23. Timeline Course I: Decide which artifact to collect
Course II: Design and develop
Course III: Peer review and assessment

24. Standards-based E-Portfolio Examples
html (pre-service, elementary)
(pre, secondary)
(pre, elementary)
Others
4/Carter_Shreves/ (special ed)
ml (teaching philosophy)
tml

25. References
Campbell, D. M., Cignetti, P. B., Melenyzer, D. J., Nettles, D. H., & Wyman, R. M. (2004). How to develop a professional portfolio: A manual for teachers (3rd ed.).
Kilbane, C. R., & Milman, N. B. (2003). The digital teaching portfolio handbook: A how-to guide for educators.