Themes: BUS, CIT, DSN, ELPS & EAP, FSHN, ISU Comm, NREM

EAP eDoc

Design Team Leader: Dr. Thomas Alsbury

Purpose: Assessment, Learning, and Showcase

Currently the Educational Administration program offers a Master’s degree and a principal licensure program (PreLEAD) that are most typically earned simultaneously by nearly 90 students. As a vehicle to demonstrate student fulfillment of the various PreLEAD and state licensure requirements, our program has required students to develop learning portfolios since we initiated our restructured PreLEAD program in 1999. Portfolios are growing in popularity among administration program preparations, because they permit demonstration of skills through the display of student artifacts. In addition to traditional assessments that are present in some courses, students’ required clinical activities and internship projects permit the creation of authentic artifacts for inclusion in the portfolios.

Because we wish for our students to develop proficiencies with a variety of technological tools, we intend to require students to develop electronic portfolios. Generally, the electronic portfolio will provide benefits to students not afforded by the current use of non-electronic portfolios including:

• Improved use of technology
• Securing an administrative position
• Improved formative review of portfolios
• More authentic demonstration of skill attainment
• More convenient for student defense
• Improved opportunity to display creativity and individuality