Response to a recent article decrying the 'hiacking' of the digital portfolio. The author, Joe Shedd, agrees "the values of student creativity, self-expression, and personal ownership that have traditionally been identified with student portfolios have been compromised by many colleges' efforts to use electronic portfolios to document the performance of their students and programs for accreditation purposes." Still, he argues, he "take(s) issue with his implication that ePortfolios and comprehensive assessment systems should have nothing to do with one another." The protfolios, he argues, allow students what might be called 'freedom within a framework' - "within that basic framework, we respect our students' right to articulate theories, values, and themes, select and organize evidence, and provide and structure reflections as they see fit." That to me sounds more like an essay assignment, and not very much like a portfolio.
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