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E-Portfolio Evaluation Rubric

E-Portfolio Evaluation Rubric

  • Developing Discipline-Related Teaching Strategies
  • Creating Effective & Inclusive Learning Environments
  • Incorporating Technology in your Teaching
  • Understanding the University Context
  • Assessing Student Learning
  • Teaching Philosophy

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Description of Competency

Comprehensive

Articulates issues and challenges in teaching the student's specific discipline(s), and identifies specific skills or abilities that are important for demonstrating this competency.

Developing

Articulates teaching issues and challenges but does not clearly relate them to the discipline.

Specific skills or abilities are identified, but they are not clearly connected to the competency area.

Cursory/Unacceptable

Issues and challenges are vague, and there is no connection to the discipline.

Skills and abilities are not identified and connected to the competency area.

Artifacts and Materials Developed (e.g., syllabus for teaching course, your own syllabi, assignments, evaluations)

Comprehensive

Documents participation in the disciplinary teaching course or workshops and provides examples of a variety of your own teaching materials.

Developing

Documents participation in the disciplinary teaching course but does not provide your own examples.

Cursory/Unacceptable

Does not provide documentation for this competency.

Artifact Rationales

Comprehensive

Relates each artifact to your own description of the competency, explains why it demonstrates a specific skill or ability you have identified.

Developing

Describes artifacts but links to the specific skills and abilities are vaguely expressed.

Cursory/Unacceptable

Describes artifacts but does not connect them to skills or abilities.

Interpretation

Comprehensive

Builds on your description of the competency, explains why it is important for effective college teaching, describes how you have met the competency (e.g., workshop, activity, assignment) and what you have learned about your own teaching practice through this competency, and provides specific examples of how you would use what you learned in future courses.

Developing

Builds on your description of the competency, explains why it is important to effective college teaching, describes how you have met the competency (e.g., workshop, activity, assignment), but does not demonstrate what you have learned about your own teaching practice through this competency or provide specific examples of how you would use what you learned in future courses.

Cursory/Unacceptable

Restates the description of the competency and describes activities.

No reflection on current or future practice.

Creating Effective & Inclusive Learning Environments

Description of Competency

Comprehensive

Articulates specific issues and challenges in creating effective and inclusive learning environments for college students, and identifies specific skills or abilities that are important for demonstrating this
competency.

Developing

Articulates teaching issues and challenges but does not clearly relate them to college learners.

Specific skills or abilities are identified, but they are not clearly connected to the competency area.

Cursory/Unacceptable

Issues and challenges are vague, and there is no connection to the problems of college learners.

Skills and abilities are not identified and connected to the competency area.

Artifacts and Materials Developed (e.g., workshop materials and agenda; related assignments or activities)

Comprehensive

Documents participation in workshops or other activities and provides examples of materials you have created to address the skills and abilities identified in your description.

Developing

Documents participation in activities that address the competency but does not provide your own examples.

Cursory/Unacceptable

Does not provide documentation for this competency.

Artifact Rationales

Comprehensive

Relates each artifact to your own description of the competency and explains why it demonstrates a specific skill or ability you have identified.

Developing

Describes artifacts but links to the specific skills and abilities are vaguely expressed.

Cursory/Unacceptable

Describes artifacts but does not connect them to skills or abilities.

Interpretation/Reflection

Comprehensive

Builds on your description of the competency, explains why it is important to effective and inclusive college teaching, describes how you have met the competency (e.g., workshop, activity, assignment) and what you have learned about your own teaching practice through this competency, and provides specific examples of how you would use what you learned in future courses.

Developing

Builds on your description of the competency, explains why it is important to effective and inclusive college teaching, describes how you have met the competency (e.g., workshop, activity,
assignment), but does not demonstrate what you have learned about your own teaching practice through this competency or provide specific examples of how you would use what you learned in future courses.

Cursory/Unacceptable

Restates the description of the competency and describes activities.

No reflection on current or future practice.

Incorporating Technology in your Teaching

Description of Competency

Comprehensive

Articulates specific issues and challenges in using technology in different kinds of courses (standard, hybrid, on-line) and/or for different kinds of learners, and identifies specific skills or abilities that are important for demonstrating this competency.

Developing

Articulates teaching issues and challenges in using technology, but does not clearly relate
them to different courses or learners. Specific skills or abilities are identified, but they
are not clearly connected to the competency area.

Cursory/Unacceptable

Issues and challenges are vague, and there is no connection to different technologies or learning situations.

Skills and abilities are not identified and connected to the competency area.

Artifacts and Materials Developed (e.g., workshop materials and agenda; related assignments  or activities)

Comprehensive

Documents participation in workshops or other activities and provides examples of a materials you have created to address the skills and abilities identified in your description.

Developing

Articulates teaching issues and challenges in using technology, but does not clearly relate them to different courses or learners. Specific skills or abilities are identified, but they are not clearly connected to the competency area.

Cursory/Unacceptable

Issues and challenges are vague, and there is no connection to different technologies or learning situations.

Skills and abilities are not identified and connected to the competency area.

Artifact Rationales

Comprehensive

Relates each artifact to your own description of the competency and explains why it demonstrates a specific skill or ability you have identified.

Developing

Describes artifacts but links to the specific skills and abilities are vaguely expressed.

Cursory/Unacceptable

Describes artifacts but does not connect them to skills or abilities.

Interpretation

Comprehensive

Builds on your description of the competency, explains why it is important for effective college teaching, describes how you have met the competency (e.g., workshop, activity, assignment) and what you have learned about your own teaching practice through this competency, and provides specific examples of how you would use what you learned in future courses.

Developing

Builds on your description of the competency, explains why it is important for effective college teaching, describes how you have met the competency (e.g., workshop, activity, assignment), but does not demonstrate what you have learned about your own teaching practice through this competency or provide specific examples of how you would use what you learned in future courses.

Cursory/Unacceptable

Restates the description of the competency and describes activities.

No reflection on current or future practice.

Understanding the University Context

Description of Competency

Comprehensive

Articulates specific issues and challenges for future faculty in higher education, and
identifies specific skills or abilities that are important for demonstrating this competency

Developing

Articulates teaching issues and challenges, but does not clearly relate them to faculty roles or the opportunities and constraints of higher education institutions.

Specific skills or abilities are identified, but they are not clearly connected to the competency area.

Cursory/Unacceptable

Issues and challenges are vague, and there is no connection to faculty roles or higher education.

Skills and abilities are not identified and connected to the competency area.

Artifacts and Materials Developed (e.g., workshop materials and agenda; professional development plan)

Comprehensive

Documents participation in workshops or other activities and provides examples of materials you have created to address the skills and abilities identified in your description.

Developing

Documents participation in activities that address the competency but does not provide your own examples.

Cursory/Unacceptable

Does not provide documentation for this competency.

Artifact Rationales

Comprehensive

Relates each artifact to your own description of the competency, explains why it demonstrates a specific skill or ability you have identified.

Developing

Describes artifacts but links to the specific skills and abilities are vaguely expressed.

Cursory/Unacceptable

Describes artifacts but does not connect them to skills or abilities.

Interpretation/Reflection

Comprehensive

Builds on your description of the competency, explains why it is important for effective college teaching, describes how you have met the competency (e.g., workshop, activity, assignment) and what you have learned about your own teaching practice through this competency, and provides specific examples of how you would use what you learned in future courses.

Developing

Builds on your description of the competency, explains why it is important for effective college teaching, describes how you have met the competency (e.g., workshop, activity, assignment), but does not demonstrate what you have learned about your own teaching practice through this competency or provide specific examples of how you would use what you learned in future courses.

Cursory/Unacceptable

Restates the description of the competency and describes activities.

No reflection on current or future practice.

Assessing Student Learning

Summary of Mentored Teaching Project (includes at least goal, question, and conclusion)

Comprehensive

Articulates specific issues and challenges.

In assessment, identifies and explains different types of assessments and links the goal, question, and conclusion of the mentored teaching project to the issues and challenges.

Developing

Describes what assessment is but does not identify different types of assessments.

Summarizes the mentored teaching project but does not relate it to issues and challenges.

Cursory/Unacceptable

Issues and challenges are vague.

Does not include discussion of mentored teaching project.

6-Step Outline (PowerPoint suggested)

Comprehensive

Clearly presents teaching and learning goal, teaching question, classroom practice, assessment technique, summary and conclusions.

Developing

Some of the steps of the project are not clearly articulated, or the presentation of the whole project is not clearly linked together.

Cursory/Unacceptable

Project is not broken out into 6 steps, or the steps do not match the project rubric.

Artifacts (e.g., assessment instruments, data)

Comprehensive

Includes assessment instruments and data from the mentored teaching.

Developing

Includes original assessment instrument only and does not present data.

Cursory/Unacceptable

Assessments and data are missing, or do not match those presented in outline.

Artifact Rationales

Comprehensive

Relates the instruments and data to specific issues and challenges in assessment.

Developing

Describes the instruments and data but does not relate them to the issues and challenges you have articulated.

Cursory/Unacceptable

Instruments and data are not clearly described.

Interpretation/Reflection

Comprehensive

Presents the results of the project and what you learned from it, how you might adapt it for use in future courses or how the conclusions will impact the way that you design your courses.

Discusses other kinds of assessments you might use in future courses.

Developing

Presents the results of the project, describes how it might be adapted but does not reflect on other kinds of assessments and how they would be used in future courses.

Cursory/Unacceptable

Results are simply a summary of the data.

Project Mentor's Evaluation

Comprehensive

Demonstrates participation of the mentor and the mentor's assessment of your question, method, and conclusions.

Developing

Demonstrates that the mentor has seen the project but not evaluated it or discussed it with their mentor.

Cursory/Unacceptable

No evaluation, or a sign-off only.

Teaching Philosophy

Teaching Philosophy

Comprehensive

Clearly articulates why they teach, what motivates them about teaching their subject, how they would describe their role in the classroom, the goals and objectives they set for their students (and how these differ in different kinds and levels of classes), how they assess student learning.

The reader can get a sense of what your classroom might look like (e.g., how you relate to the students, how they relate to you and each other, the kinds of assignments you do and why).

Developing

Describes typical activities in teaching in general and in their discipline, outlines general goals they have, and their relationship to students, but does not describe how they might approach different kinds of classes or students differently.

The reader has a sense of your basic approach to teaching but does not have a picture of how one of your classes might operate.

Cursory/Unacceptable

Outlines general activities and issues in teaching, but does not relate them back to themselves, their discipline, or the college classroom.