Evaluation strategies

Course e-portfolio evaluation rubric

Course portfolio is a collection of students’ work during course. Teachers can use different tools like rubric or checklist to evaluate students’ e-portfolio. One of these tools is Joan Vandervelde's electronic portfolio rubric. This rubric is designed by Joan Vandervelde who is Owner at Instruct Online L.L.C. Company. She work in the past in College of Education at University of Northern Iowa .Joan Vandervelde has written a series of online courses about integrating the internet with K-12 curriculum. She has developed extensive knowledge and experience in curriculum and program development, online instruction, learner-centered approaches, faculty development and training, and team management. Joan focuses on the theoretical, pedagogical, technological, and administrative aspects of development and evaluation of online professional education courses. The rubric that she developed for evaluating e-portfolio consists of includes 7 categories with 4 levels of achievement. The seven categories are Selection of Artifacts, reflections, use of Multimedia, Creativity, Layout and Text Elements, Annotations, and Writing Mechanics. The four levels of achievement in order are Exemplary, Proficient, Partially Proficient, and Incomplete. This rubric is aimed to measure the degree or amount to which students met standards and criteria in e-portfolio. It can be used for self-assessment or for instructor evaluation.
The rubric has several advantages for both instructors and students as shown by Johnson (2006). For the instructors, it allows them to clarify their grading criteria in specific terms and examples. It makes the evaluation and assessment objectively .In addition, it gives useful feedback to instructors regarding the effectiveness of the instruction. For the students, it demonstrates to them how their work will be evaluated and explains what is expected of them. It also offers students a greater sense of ownership for their learning. By using the rubric students can monitor their progress according to specific criteria.
One of the limitations of using the rubric, that it costs time and effort from the instructor.

Here are some links for other rubrics that can be used for evaluating e-portfolio:
http://www.uvm.edu/~jmorris/rubricep.html (by Joyce L. Morris, Ed.D, University of Vermont, Department of Education)
http://www.markville.ss.yrdsb.edu.on.ca/mm/UBC/510/eportfoliorubric.htm (Adapted from Vandervelde, J. (2005)
http://eportfolio.citytech.cuny.edu/pdf/Rubric_FINAL_7-28-03.pdf (by New York City College of Technology)



References:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/instructonline

http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/eportfoliorubric.html

http://electronicportfolios.com/ALI/rubrics.html