Standards-based Grading Series: Process Portfolios to Document Thinking and Learning

(F Mar 19, 11am-12:30pm Eastern Standard Time)

This 1.5 hr. workshop is dedicated to making thinking “visible” by documenting what influences a student’s thought process and by keeping track of the changes that occur when additional information is acquired. Process portfolios can be used in any subject area where a student’s ideas are evolving:  a piece of writing, an experiment, a model, a project, or the maturation and development of skills for a particular content area. Some of the silver-linings of the shift to digital platforms are the tracking of changes, timestamps, and previous versions that are captured for documents, slides, spreadsheets, and drawings. Digital portfolios of the thinking process that occurs between inception and the final product are easy to collect and can be used for discussion and self-evaluation during the reflection period of an assignment. The techniques taught in this workshop can be utilized in either a remote or in-person classroom.