Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhiwei Guan, University of Washington; Steve Lappenbusch, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington; Jessica Yellin, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

freshman students15 9, sophomores7, to seniors.8 9 Studies in these papers provide abroad coverage of the context in which portfolios were used. New engineering educators orresearchers could refer to similar cases in their design of portfolio curriculum.In most of the papers that we reviewed, the portfolios were created for a specific course (elevenout of fifteen studies). The portfolio construction could take place at the different stages of thecourse, such as in the mid-semester9, in the midterm and at the end of the course7, only on thefinal stage15, or throughout the semester8 or the quarter.9 The portfolios could also be used toreplace other assignments11 The life cycle of the portfolio creation could exceed the boundary ofthe classroom. For