Perhaps marking a full portfolio at once is the worst of all tasks. Offering feedback on parts as the programme goes on is a way of - a) formative assessment for learning pusposes and b) getting to know the learner through dialogue and c) avoiding the full agony of summative marking at the end.
A portfolio is a collection - in art and design it is the talking through of one's portfolio where the quality of learning becomes visible.
Perhaps then, oral assessment based on the portfolio is a better option than sitting with a pile of faceless and compex documents - we did this in the early days of SEDA fellowships - it was the "interview" that was the real assessment process.
All the best
Liz
Dr Liz Beaty,
Director (Learning and Teaching)
HEFCE
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From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development Association
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Sent: Wed Apr 25 16:11:29 2007
Subject: Re: Portfolios: marking avoidance tactics
Dear Phil
I am easily distracted as you can see...
What exactly are you asking us to do?
Give you "some advanced portfolio marking avoidance tactics"
Discuss the merits of portfolios as instruments for judging teaching
quality, or the quality of learning on PGC programmes?
Or both?
Or are you simply using this discussion forum to distract yourself from
the mundane task of portfolio marking; using it as a form of therapy?
I do agree that having a cartload of portfolio obliges one to clear the
desk if not the whole office.
How about portfolios as instruments for spring cleaning.....
Rakesh
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From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development
Association [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Professor Phil
Race
Sent: 25 April 2007 16:02
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Subject: Portfolios: marking avoidance tactics
I'm getting more and more worried about Portfolios as an assessment
instrument for PG Certs. They do indeed give candidates the opportunity
to
demonstrate a good cross-section of their skills and knowledge, but I
fear
that:
(1) some good participants just never get round to putting a portfolio
together;
(2) some good participants' time would be better spent teaching (or
researching) than putting together the wonderful portfolios they
sometimes
produce.
However, I pride myself in never being late getting my portfolios
marked,
and have just finished writing feedback comments for my last two for the
present. But that said, I find myself doing all sorts of tasks BEFORE I
actually open a portfolio - a very good way of clearing my desk. You
wouldn't believe some of the things which take precedence over marking a
portfolio - or are other people the same as me?
Please will you reply to the list if you have some advanced portfolio
marking avoidance tactics you are willing to share? [Indeed, replying to
the list could count as one of these in its own right]. I will be happy
to
work these together into a compendium, so that we can all get even more
done while we're putting off marking portfolios.
Phil Race
www.phil-race.com
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