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Unlocking ePortfolio Practice

Jean Henscheid University of Idaho

Gary Brown

AAC&U and AAEEBL

Helen Chen Stanford

Aifang Gordon Portland State

“Self-efficacy is the greatest predictor of student success in learning. Self-efficacy is our belief that a task is achievable by us, and that the environment in which we are working will allow us to achieve that task. It’s that ticking heart that measures out the motivation in us.”

—Albert Bandura

2013 AAEEBL Survey

162 Responses—2013

Platform Technologies

2013

Focus of ePortfolio Initiative

2011

Focus of ePortfolio Initiative

2012

Focus of ePortfolio Initiative

2013

Integrative? Collaborative assignments & assessment? Faculty collaboration?

Who Owns the ePortfolio? (new in 2013)

Evaluation

2012

Percent

Frequency

2013

Percent

Frequency

Evaluation of students’ ePortfolios is

done almost exclusively by the

instructor (or the instructor’s

designated assistant.

38.9%

75

46.3%

68

Evaluation of students’ ePortfolio is

done by faculty and members of the

academic program.

35.2%

68

41.5%

61

Evaluation of students’ ePortfolios is

done by cross-disciplinary teams both

inside and outside of the institution.

14.0%

27

5.44%

8

Evaluation of students’ ePortfolios is

frequently done by teams of faculty

and stakeholders, including student

peers.

11.9%

23

6.8%

10

Total: 193 147

Assign Task Help Define

Share

Beyond Class Test & Submit

Study & Perform

Study, Collaborate,

Discover,

Generate

Cooperate

Test & Submit

Study, Interact,

& Perform

Learning-Centered Learner-Centered Teacher-Centered

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/06/education-20-vs-education-30-awesome.html

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2009 Institutional Teaching Beliefs Distribution by Percentage

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AAEEBL 2013 Teaching Beliefs Distribution by Frequency N=102

e-Portfolio Practitioners?

Teaching Beliefs % Distribution by Question 2012-2013

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2012 24 42 35

2013 20 42 38

Change? 2012-2013

Teacher Centered

Learner &

Learning

High in All

2012 15% 44% 40%

2013 8% 51% 38%

Change - 7% + 7% - 2%

Teacher, Learner, and Learning-centered beliefs are usefully distinct constructs.

ePortfolio platforms significantly associate with faculty’s teaching beliefs.

AAEEBL Survey Findings.....

Depends upon your institutional size, what and how you assess, the platform you use, and your teaching beliefs....

What is the Purpose of ePortfolios?

2013 AAEEBL Survey Significant Findings

Institutions with 10,000-20,000 enrollments valued Showcasing Students’ work more than larger and smaller institutions.

2013 AAEEBL Survey Significant Findings ePortfolios Coming of Age

ePortfolios adopted at individual courses valued assessment of individual student work within a course more important than institution wide

2013 AAEEBL Survey Significant Findings

ePortfolios adopted at program and/or department level within academic affairs valued assessment of learning outcomes for program review, accreditation or certification as more important than individual course levels.

2013 AAEEBL Survey Significant Findings

Evaluation done by teams of faculty, students, and stakeholders is more likely to be a practice done by faculty with Learning-Centered beliefs than by faculty who evaluate students in their courses and in academic programs. Student ePortfolios assessed by cross-disciplinary teams are more likely guided by faculty who value tracking student development for educational planning.

Learning beyond a single course and over time, how one’s own course contributes to a student’s learning experience and in the larger community... Intentionality that implicitly recognizes that an education is more than a collection of courses.

Who is most likely to engage in this community practice?

2013 AAEEBL Survey Significant Findings

Can we nurture and promote learning-centered beliefs and practices?

Imagine Teaching Learning-Centeredness...

With the oversight of a good teacher, ideas are generated and synthesized that lift the class and the teacher with it to a place that they couldn't have arrived at alone.

http://chronicle.com/article/What-Ive-Learned-in-the/140471/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

A group of seemingly lackluster undergraduates...can generate insights as original and powerful as those in a Ph.D. seminar.

http://chronicle.com/article/What-Ive-Learned-in-the/140471/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Teaching... is an impossible profession. It is an endeavor as difficult to navigate as life itself—as frustrating and as wondrous.

—Paula Marantz Cohen

http://chronicle.com/article/What-Ive-Learned-in-the/140471/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Action Research Two Inland Northwest Graduate Courses

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Teaching Belief Categories by Individual

Course Design

Teacher-Centered When you turned in assignments the most important thing was not that it was written without error, which was important, but the content mattered and showed that I knew the information.

Learner-Centered

She always got down on my level to listen and talk to me, and I believed she thought what I had to say was the most important thing ever to her.

Learning-Centered She is one of the very few teachers at the University that truly believed each student had valuable experiences that could help us in our field working with families.

Sample Coding

What Students Said....

Few students recounted instances where “good” teachers had promoted agency among learners to join in determining how academic work would be represented and in determining what should be learned.

“Instead of taking us outside, he proceeded to walk students through the regulations of bow hunting. The issue arose when we learned that the instructor had no intention of allowing his students to shoot their own bows.”

“At the end of the course the instructor administered a written test and then, if the student passed, issued them the archery validation card required to be able to archery hunt in Idaho.”

—Idaho Bow Hunting Field Day

Rare were those instances when students said they had collaborated to generate new knowledge, employed vigorous peer review, networked with others in and out-of-class to inform their learning process or were encouraged to create or embody their own learning.

Students were not blind to the fact that they had missed out on learning-centered experiences.

Some wondered if it were even possible in formal learning environments.

Others had just never seen it.

“I would get lost without teachers’ guidance. I am so used to meeting teachers’ expectations. It will take time for me to learn to make my own learning plan – even to find my own needs and interests. At the same time, I do admire and agree with the importance of learning-centered approaches and would love to be able to explore and contribute my own perspectives.”