Electronic Portfolio Assessment

A 1995-96 Title VI "15%" grant awarded to Bethel Public School District #403 by the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

Summary:

Recently developed technologies and research designs have documented that student's reading, listening, researching, calculating, writing, analyzing, reporting, and motor skills can be more authentically determined and meaningfully expressed through performing electronic portfolio assessment tasks, than by utilizing traditional standardized testing and letter grading practices. Student work created on expensive school-based multimedia equipment can be transferred to VHS videotape. This video transfer makes school-to-home assessment communication accessible to virtually every household since VHS VCRs are owned by a majority of American households or can be economically rented at local video stores. This grant project created a teacher's electronic portfolio assessment curriculum guide, a student HyperCard video production instructional stack and a video production instructional videotape for student and teacher use. Students created traditional and multimedia projects that were video-recorded and sent home to parents. Returned parent evaluation forms indicate the seven piloting teachers accomplished the goal of creating videotapes which allow parents to observe their child learning and demonstrating Bethel Public School District core essential learning outcomes.