This post is by Justin Wells, Executive Director of Envision Learning Partners. Portfolio assessment has been around for a long time, and the practice appears to be growing. It’s easy to see why. A ...

Capstone courses integrate knowledge, concepts, and skills associated with an entire sequence of study in a program. This method of assessment is unique because the courses themselves become the ...

As California schools increasingly focus on preparing students for college and careers, a growing number of educators are turning to end-of-year “portfolios” as indicators of whether students have ...

As the shift toward digital everything takes hold in universities all over the world, it's not surprising that the the next generation of student assessment is the electronic portfolio. Campus ...

The U.S. Department of Education has started informing a small group of states that they will have to make changes to the way they test students with severe cognitive disabilities, because of ...

Direct Measures of student learning consider actual student work or behavior as evidence of student learning outcomes. Direct measures are most often drawn from student work embedded in a course (such ...

All students pursuing an M.S. in Library and Information Science (MSLIS) and M.S. Museums and Digital Culture are required to create a Portfolio that must be approved by their faculty advisor before ...