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Professor Jan Alan Van Eys is the instructor for two sections of the EDU 235 Introduction to Lesson Planning course and one section of the advanced EDU 445 Curricular Unit with Modifications Plan course. He has created a Table of Contents (TOC) that includes the critical assignments from both of these courses, and all the students who enroll in his three class sections use the Instructional Planning and Communication Table of Contents.
In the EDU 235 class, students begin to develop their first lesson plan, based on the professional teaching standards selected by the College of Education and included in the recently developed Conceptual Framework. The professional standards, as well as the evaluation criteria for the lesson plan assignment, are linked to the Table of Contents so that they are available in each student’s portfolio, accessed from the Page Information panel accessed from the top of the portfolio in edit mode.
During the sixth week of instruction, the students are required to share their draft lesson plan draft with the professor, using the eportfolio sharing feature. Students can create customized share groups of systems users, share with individual system users, or create a secure URL to share their portfolio with a person outside the system. The professor is able to review and comment on the work, so that the student can revise the work before it is formally submitted for grading.
The professor can create student groups, which include only students who have submitted work directly to him. Advisor groups can be created to review the work of those students who are his advisees. Even though he is not scoring the work of students in advisee groups, Professor Van Eys is able to provide feedback to these students using the sharing and messaging feature in the software.
Once work is submitted to be scored, it can be reviewed prior to assessment. If there are revisions to be made before the work is scored, the professor can return to the shared portfolio and comment there, or he can use the internal messaging system to correspond with the student.
Once the submitted work has been scored, the results are available on the Student Results screen. Work can be reassessed and attached documents viewed. Additional attachments can be uploaded. Student results can be reported from the desktop reporting tool. Reports can be downloaded as text files and opened in a spreadsheet application such as Excel. The professor reports results for the EDU 235 Lesson Plan rubric by both criteria and by student name. He is also able to look at individual student progress on the professional standards that he has linked to the Table of Contents evaluation rubrics.
A variety of other reports are also available, including demographic distributions and survey results such as course evaluations and dispositional self-assessments. Professor Van Eys creates custom reports for both his courses using the demographic filters that he has created, allowing him to examine student results for specific time frames and particular demographic subgroups.
Professor Van Eys has created subcategories of skills that are otherwise difficult to measure by organizing individual evaluation criteria into groups. For example, he is interested in both individual and group learning with regards to communication skills. His custom ‘Communication Skills’ report shows progress for individual students as well as for groups that he categorizes as ‘non-traditional’, which include older adult learners who have returned to the classroom from various vocations. This reporting strategy allows Professor Van Eys to identify areas of his instruction that may need improvement.