To provide a central organizing construct to support and assess student development and to promote students’ synthesis of their experiences at Illinois

Measuring achievement toward Global Studies Goals Knowledge Skills Values

Setting specific goals and assessing progress toward them can lead to higher quality educational experiences

See AACU VALUE Project: Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education

http://www.aacu.org/resources/assessment/portfolio.cfm

Goals Outcomes Assessment

Expand knowledge of human cultures and impacts on world

Students develop knowledge of other cultures; their level of integration in regional and global politics and economics.

Publish research project as a website and make it available to others in class; students assess peers’ work

Develop a sense of social responsibility and intentionality

Students reflect on values/interests; identify volunteer projects, organizations to support values, int.

Publish on-line profile of values, interests and match to relevant civic experiences

Promote reflection on and articulation of their academic and personal goals, their intersections: Coursework Study abroad Volunteer and service experiences Student organizations and leadership roles Part-time jobs, internships

Provide a way for students to get to know each other

Ultimately used for presenting students for job consideration, committee participation or other recommendation

Interest in developing students’ technology skills through website development

Interest in developing students’ collaborative project work through website development

Interest in linking their project work to their on-line academic profile

eFolio Minnesota: http://sample19.efoliomn.com/

Task Stream: http://www.taskstream.com/pub/PDF/ToolsBrochure.pdf

Mahara: https://portfolio.atlas.uiuc.edu/

American Council on Education:Assessing International Learning

Outcomeshttp://www.acenet.edu/Content/NavigationMenu/

ProgramsServices/cii/res/assess/index.htm

Set-up and purpose of course Three major assignments: Individual Profile Danielle Kolecki Bianca Serrato

Mid-Term Project Molly Schmidt

Final Group Project Central America and the Caribbean

Steep learning curve using the tool Problems of plagiarism Useful in writing letters of

recommendation and advising

Possibility to create templates that will help them frame their experiences overall, listing courses with links to artifacts

Exploring ways to motivate students to maintain their portfolio throughout the four years