I'm probably not the one to answer this as my knowledge of teaching
portfolios is limited to the presentation I went to. The advantage of the
portfolio is that it provides information in addtion to your "classroom
presence". Typically course syllabi, exams, assignments you have graded
are submitted to someone with experience in the course and they provide an
evaluation of that material. The portfolio would include the material you
had evaluated and the evalutations, student and peer evaluations of you
teaching performance and a statement of your teaching philosophy.
Clearly you could set it up to improve how you look but if you are really
looking for feedback to improve your teaching that would make no sense.
Gary J. Klatsky, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oswego State University of NY http://www.oswego.edu/~klatsky
Oswego, NY 13126 Voice: (315) 312 3474
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Scoles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 12:15 PM
To: Gary Klatsky
Cc: TIPS
Subject: Re: course evaluations
Gary Klatsky wrote:
> I attended a presentation by Dan Bernstein on Course Portfolios at the
NITOP
> conference earlier this month. That is a much better way of presenting
> one's teaching experience than a student evaluation.
Are there data available to show that portfolios are "better"? Or, do they
just
provide information of a different type? Is it possible that someone who
receives great student and peer evaluations might do a lousy job of putting
together a portfolio? Similarly, could someone with a lousy classroom
presence
put together a pretty good portfolio?
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