Grading
How Should Digital Portfolio Pages be Graded?
As you consider how you will grade the work that students do with digital portfolios, take the opportunity to show students that you value the learning process and each student's own learning journey.
A student's digital portfolio should demonstrate growth over time, personal interests, and competency of skills. There are many different ways to grade digital portfolio. Below you will find sample rubrics and model grading practices that you may use to gain insight but they are not necessarily the prescribed method as methods will vary from site to site and team to team.
The Easiest Rubric In The World
This effort-based grading approach comes here from Mike Skocko's (Valhalla High School) fantastic blog in which he asks readers to (re)Imagine high school. This might be an attractive way for some educators to evaluate digital portfolios as expressions of personal learning journeys.
Digital Portfolio Rubric Based on ABC Writing
This detailed rubric, which attempts to show a data point for the different types of thinking that should be represented on digital portfolio pages, is not very student friendly. Still, it might serve as a guide when considering the kind of thinking you want students to represent on their digital portfolios.
Wholistic Grading: Strong / Developing / Not Yet
This guide offers a 3-tiered feedback guide. Teachers adopting this grade/scoring method will give students feedback on Digital Portfolio development over time, Evidence of thinking, Diversity of content, Structure and organization, and Self-reflection.