ERIC Number: EJ1080774
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Publication Date: 2015
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Grading ePortfolios: Tracing Two Approaches, Their Advantages, and Their Disadvantages
Yancey, Kathleen Blake
Theory Into Practice, v54 n4 p301-308 2015
How does one grade an electronic portfolio? This question is one I have thought about, have enacted, and have written about, primarily in reference to ePortfolios used in writing classrooms (Yancey, McElroy, & Powers, 2013). But what happens when the content and developmental levels are changed, in this case from an undergraduate first-year writing class to another required class, this one offered at the graduate level, Digital Revolution and Convergence Culture? Is using a scoring guide, the preferred approach in writing classes, the best approach in this new context? Or, following Moss, Girard, and Haniford (2006), could one use outcomes to "stage a conversation" around a student's ePortfolio; if so, what might a staged conversation look like? Or what might happen if instead of using outcomes as a framework, students themselves set the terms for that conversation? Here, I consider these options, attending especially to the importance of making good judgments and of fostering learning.
Descriptors: Grading, Portfolio Assessment, Electronic Publishing, Teaching Methods, Delivery Systems, Intermode Differences, Writing (Composition), Graduate Students, Scoring Formulas, Educational Practices, Evaluation Methods, Performance Factors, Evaluation Problems, Instructional Effectiveness
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