The following is a "starter list" of concerns, decisions to be made, etc.
I am including items the lists from Michael Kilbey (MK), from the UUCC minutes, and my own items. In some cases I paraphrased the MK or UUCC items to make them clearer (I hope). I've made five groupings, to start: students, instructors, evaluators, program, and ETS/technical issues. I stuck items that I don't understand (and therefore could not classify) at the end.
--Debi
Evaluators:
Who will read/score the eportfolios? (MK)
Will each competency be read by a different person? (MK)
What expertise/training will the reader(s) have, and who will do the training?(MK)
How many eportfolios will be assessed each year? (MK)
Does there need to be a space for evaluator comments?
Students:
How will students know what to put in the eportfolio? (MK)
When will the student submit their evidence? (MK)
Will the larger eportfolio be evaluated (or just the indiv artifacts)? (MK)
What are the consequences/reward for students? (MK)
What materials should be included? (UUCC)
Should this be a graduation requirement? (UUCC)
How can students comprehend the objectives of the eportfolio? (UUCC)
Should there be a mechanism for calling/prompting students to participate?(UUCC)
Need tutorials for students on how to do this (mechanically, as well as how to pick appropriate evidence). On-line? (UUCC)
Once submitted, should that cell be locked? Or can a student re-evaluate which piece of evidence she/he wants to submit, and edit/improve the evidence? (DS)
Instructors:
Need tutorials for instructors on how to use the competencies/rubrics to design meaningful activites/assignments that can be used as evidence. On-line or workshops or both?
What if an instructor wants to attach an instructor comment to products from his/her course? Should this be possible? If yes, then should be evaluators be able to see these comments?
Programs:
What kind of reports will programs need to do program evaluation and goals? What is it that SACS wants?
ETS/Technical:
What is the time frame? (UUCC)
What are the current methods for developing eportfolios?(UUCC)
What is the purpose(s) for having students develop eportfolios?(UUCC)
Need different names for assessing programs and assessing competencies.(UUCC)
Brainstorm what information needs to be tagged with each piece of evidence: semester or date, competency(ies) addressed, course in which it was produced (with an option of "not associated with a specific course"), student's major, a link to a reflection, or some other comment space where student can justify the inclusion of this specific product.
Ability for evaluator to tag specific products to be pulled as samples for SACS (as a representative of the rating it received).
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Can ePortfolio development be tied to registration? Legally? (UUCC)
Should all of "these" issues be started within the competencies? (UUCC)
