Portfolio committee 11 17 99
Melanie Kennon
Connie Zimmer
Tim Carter
Betty Salmeri
Scott Adams

We need to decide a sequence.
Logical levels of development.
Task one - We have already been doing this. When is the best time to turn this in.
Philosophy - this addresses the dispositions. We are after evidence of standards for making a recommendation.
Evaluator creates a statement of accuracy of dispositions. The philosophical statement should be a strand driving all the portfolio. The philosophy should be turned in to the block instructor with feedback prior to final submission of portfolios. Question - will student teachers know who will evaluate them?
Multiple people should be looking at portfolios.
What is the status of the server for web portfolios?
Campus supervisor responsible for rating teaching and rating portfolios.
Students would submit pieces from portfolio to their guiding committee, campus supervisor, block person, cooperating teacher feedback. You have the option of submitting portfolio documents to committee for feedback. One day at the end of the semester, there would be a 30 minute panel interview with the guiding committee.
Interview committee consists of guiding committee plus principal and classroom teacher and other school of education faculty.
-- Contact principals re: responses to this idea.
Possible options….
- Guiding (formative) committee with a summative evaluation by same committee on site or on campus
Committee = campus supervisor, principal, classroom teachers
committee just campus faculty
Timeline with feedback for each piece for one expert of choice
Committee of Dean/Dept Head/Certification officer review turned in to cmte. or with student presenting to committee.
Block instructor arranges with faculty committees to review random portfolios.
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Criteria for selection of evaluation option ---
- Validity
- Reliability of inferences
- guard against personal bias
- Evidence of exit competencies
- Shared workload and reliability
- Increases the amount of quality feedback to students

Top choices for evaluation.
guiding committee (formative) with a summative evaluation by the same committee on site or on campus. Block instructor as a chair of the committee.

Start work on the rubrics portions related to tasks that we have been working on.