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Using eportfolios for authentic assessment and measuring growth

Using eportfolios for authentic assessment and measuring growth

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Using eportfolios for authentic assessment and measuring growth

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- Most of the assessment strategies we've reviewed so far provide important data points, but on their own they don't provide a very complete picture. What if you want to step back and check to see if a student has made progress over several weeks? For a quick snapshot, you can look at your gradebook to see if scores are higher, lower or the same. To get a fuller picture, you can use electronic portfolios, or eportfolios, to monitor student competencies and growth over time. If you're not familiar with eportfolios, they're a virtual environment where students can collect and showcase their work for different audiences, such as teachers and fellow students, family and friends, potential employers, and so on. Your students can use free web tools like Google Sites or WordPress, free eportfolio tools like Pathbrite or Content Builder, or subscription tools like myeFolio or Digication. While services like Box or Dropbox support sharing files and making comments, they don't have a…

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