Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Date of this Version
2001
Document Type
Article
Citation
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (2001) 19; http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/tia.17063888.0019.020
Abstract
Many universities now encourage, and some even require, faculty to submit a teaching portfolio as part of their tenure application package. How to evaluate these portfolios, however, remains an unresolved issue, particularly if the task is to make a judgment about whether what is demonstrated in the portfolio reflects engagement in the scholarship of teaching. The thesis of this chapter is that judgments regarding the validity and truthfulness of a teaching portfolio can be made by assessing the extent to which the author has attended to an agreed-upon process of knowledge construction and validation in teaching. A model of the scholarship of teaching is proposed that could guide the design and evaluation of portfolios and an illustration of the process is given.
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Comments
License: CC BY-NC-ND