Rhode Island Electronic Portfolio System (RIEPS)
The Assessment and Accreditation portfolio depicted here was initially designed by the Rhode Island Department of Education and the Rhode Island Network for Technology. The primary goal of the portfolio is to collect and display portfolio-worthy assignments completed by students in 25 high schools throughout the state of Rhode Island. Students develop and share ePortfolio assignments with a group of evaluators. Evaluators assess student learning in accordance with state standards and district expectations. Beginning in 2008, seniors may use their graduation portfolio to meet many of the state's requirements for high school graduation. The portfolios also provide reports of student learning to district, state and national accrediting agencies.
This portfolio, which is the most complex of our samples, requires input from teachers, students and administrators and serves multiple purposes.
Teachers
- Create portfolio-worthy assignments for each section of each course
- Link assignments to state standards and district expectations
- Use reports to assess student work in their courses
Students
- Submit assignments for teachers to rate according to linked standards and expectations
- Use reports to assess their work in preparation for graduation
- Repurpose assignments according to district expectations using the Graduation Portfolio template for their high school
Administrators
- Use reports to aggregate assessment results for reporting to the state and to accrediting agencies
- Students to assess four years of work for inclusion in a Graduation Portfolio
- Teachers to manage and assess portfolio work in their courses
- Administrators to aggregate data by district for reporting to the state and to accrediting agencies
Environment
This portfolio should work as designed in the following environments. You can experiment with this portfolio in the rSmart Sakai CLE.
How It Works
| Step | Building Block | What's Happening | What It Looks Like |
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| 1 | Portfolio-Worthy Assignments | Teachers create their own assignments or import them from libraries of common tasks validated at the state level. |  |
| 2 | Assignments Linked to State Standards and District Expectations | Teachers link portfolio assignments to shared goals and rate student work according to goals. |  |
| 3 | Reports |
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| 4 | Graduation Portfolio | Each high school provides a portfolio template for students to use in repurposing portfolio assignments to meet expectations for graduation. |  |
Building Blocks
This comprehensive assessment portfolio uses the components described below. Due to their complexity, only the Portfolio Template components necessary to duplicate this portfolio are provided as a download here. Additional Components
Portfolio Templates
Reports
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