AAC & U Annual Meeting Features ePortfolio Innovation

• Just back from Washington, DC where the AAC & U annual conference offered a day-long symposium: The Search for VALUE: Innovation, Economic Uncertainty and ePortfolio Assessment.

We were heartened to participate and see how much new interest there is in the use of ePortfolios across the country.

In our work on the VALUE (Valid Assessment in Undergraduate Education) project, we've worked to create a set of rubrics that will be useful in evaluating portfolios and the work within them. Led by Terrel Phodes and Wende Morgaine, the VALUE project (and 15 rubric/scoring guides) I believe will prove to be a powerful driver in the continued development of using ePortfolios for curricular, co-curricular, and institution-wide outcomes.

Two VALUE publications worth checking out are:

• Assessing Outcomes & Improving Achievement: Tips and Tools for Using Rubrics
• Electronic Portfolios and Student Success: Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Learning