Work in Progress: Faculty Perceptions of Electronic Portfolios as Assessment Tools
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Minneapolis, MN
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August 23, 2022
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June 26, 2022
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June 29, 2022
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Educational Research and Methods (ERM) Division Poster Session
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6
- DOI
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10.18260/1-2--40840
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https://peer.asee.org/40840
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202
Paper Authors
Briana Bouchard Tufts University
Briana M. Bouchard is a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University. She received her M.S. in Engineering Management and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, both from Tufts University. Her research interests include undergraduate engineering education, alternative assessment practices, and ePortfolios.
Kristen Wendell Tufts University
Kristen Wendell is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Education at Tufts University, where she is a member of the Tufts Institute for Research on Learning and Instruction (IRLI) and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO). curriculum and instructional supports for inclusive knowledge construction by engineering learners. Major projects emphasize community-based engineering curricula and professional development, engineering discourse studies, design notebooking, undergraduate learning assistants, and responsive teaching for engineering. Kristen is an associate editor for the Journal of Engineering Education. She teaches courses in design, mechanics, electronics, and engineering education. Wendell completed her PhD in science education at Tufts, her MS in aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, and her BS in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton.
Nicole Batrouny Tufts University
Nicole Batrouny is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering at Tufts University. She received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Denver and completed undergraduate research in biomechanics. She received her M.S. in mechanical engineering from Tufts University in 2019; her thesis explored the decision-making strategies and productive talk moves of 4th-grade students during an engineering curriculum that she designed and taught. Her current doctoral research at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach focuses on decision-making strategies and the personal, interpersonal, and external influences on those strategies across engineering educational contexts. Outside of research, she is a teaching assistant at the university's machine shop, where she assists students with a wide range of digital fabrication tools and precision machinery. Outside of school, Nicole is interested in biking, yarn crafts, sci-fi and fantasy writing, sustainable living, social justice, and the intersections of all of these.
Abstract
This work in progress paper explores faculty perceptions of ePortfolios for assessment with a focus on the barriers to implementation and the possible influences on their instructional approaches. This paper draws on data from a larger in-progress design-based research study on the development of cross-course ePortfolios through an optional experience designed for second-year mechanical engineering students. Through a lens of expectancy value theory, an initial analysis was done on seven faculty interviews to shed light on some of the reasons why ePortfolios have not been widely adopted in engineering education. Preliminary analysis identified both expectancy-related and value-based barriers, which indicates additional groundwork is needed to support faculty in the use of ePortfolios in the classroom. However, faculty predictions of how the implementation of ePortfolios in their classrooms would influence their teaching indicated almost all of them would feel the need to modify core course assignments or instructional approaches. These data support a conclusion that initially implementing ePortfolios at a program-level, before class-level integration, may be an effective strategy to support sustained adoption.
Bouchard, B., & Wendell, K., & Batrouny, N. (2022, August), Work in Progress: Faculty Perceptions of Electronic Portfolios as Assessment Tools Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40840
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