[Portfolio] new workflow for reviews
Charles Hedrick
hedrick at rutgers.edu
Wed Aug 19 15:22:47 PDT 2009
Rutgers is preparing a campus-wide portfolio. We have a very
decentalized structure. So there's not a single office helping
students and using it for assessment. Rather, various people will be
asking students to make entries in their portfolio, and reviewing them:
* first year seminars
* college life people
* courses
* departments
* college staff doing assessment
This makes evaluation using a rubric difficult, because without some
additional code, we would mix evaluations done by very different
people for different purposes. Each program may want to review the
items they have assessed. In general we want to assess individual
items (forms), not cells.
I've added a new review workflow that keeps track of who the
assessment was done for. Internally it is a single table. It points to
an item, a review, a group within the site, and a reviewer. Next to an
item in a cell, I've added a new command, "submit for review". When a
student selects that, they get a list of all groups they in, with the
people in that group who have review permission. The student then
submits the item to a specific person. (The problem is that a student
may well be in more than one group that is using the portfolio.)
Reviewers have a listing of all items that have been submitted to them
for review (and a separate listing of items they have previously
reviewed). I believe this gives us enough data that we can produce
reports for a course or a program on items they have reviewed.
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