An assessment tool that has been gaining acceptance in the Arts and Humanities is the student portfolio. Such portfolios collect and evaluate student work over time, and are considered to provide a more accurate, longitudinal view of student development than quantitative tests or arbitrary benchmarks. This presentation discusses using Google's Picasa as an easy and cheap tool for creating searchable portfolios of student work, and for using those portfolios as a means of evaluating student and instructor development. Creating a searchable visual database not only allows us track student development within a given semester, but through their entire career in a visual arts program. It makes it possible to track how courses are developing over time, and to see which assignments are working, which were not, and whether changes to those assignments are having the desired effect. In the long term, searchable student portfolios have the potential to allow instructors to compare student work from across the state, or around the world, and to compare assignments, standards, and best practices.

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Electronic portfolios in education, Computer-assisted instruction, Technology, Education, Porfolios in education--Study and teaching

11th annual faculty best practices showcase

Morfit, Jedediah (Speaker), NJEdge.NET (Sponsor), Seton Hall University (Supporting host), Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

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