Colleges and Universities Using Portfolios for Writing
Assessment
Carol
Rutz
Carleton College
May 2004
Post-secondary institutions have been using portfolios
to assess student writing for nearly two decades. SUNY Stonybrook established
a portfolio exit examination for first-year writing in 1984. Miami University
of Ohio started allowing placement into or exemption from first-year
writing courses by portfolio submission in 1990. Washington State University
began their junior-level placement assessment by portfolio in 1993.
All these places, and many others since, have testified that formal
portfolio assessment of writing is easy to imagine and defend but hard
to design and implement.
The literature on portfolio assessment at the college
level is large (CompPile has over 500 cites for "portfolio"
in the Search Terms or Title fields). It's full of theory, stories,
and results. Publications can be frustrating, though, when one is looking
for answers to specific, practical questions—questions about fees,
delivery systems, legal language, prompt sheets, rating procedures,
and so on. For solutions to such pragmatic and logistical enigmas it
may be much more expedient to telephone or email someone at a school
that has been doing portfolio assessment. But which are those places?
The following list shows schools that currently use
portfolios (paper or digital) to assess writing at the individual, course,
or program level. Data
were compiled from responses to a query on WPA-L in spring of 2003 and
from a subset of the AAHE
online portfolio database (the schools that use portfolios specifically
for student evaluation). Additions
are welcome; please e-mail Carol Rutz
crutz@carleton.edu to add your school to
this list.
- Angelo
State U (TX)
- Arizona
State U
- Atlanta
Christian College
- Belmont
U (Nashville, TN)
- California
State U at Humboldt
- California
State U at Monterey Bay
- California
Sate U at Northridge
- California
State U Sacramento
- Carleton
College (MN)
- Chestnut Hill College (Philadelphia, PA)
- Clemson
U (SC)
- College
of the Mainland (TX)
- Community
College of Denver
- Eastern
Connecticut State U
- Eastern
Oregon U
- Eastern
Washington U
- East
Texas Baptist U
- Eckerd
College (FL)
- GateWay
Community College (AZ)
- George
Mason U (VA)
- Georgia
State U
- Highline
Community College (WA)
- Illinois
State U
- Indiana
U Southeast
- James
Madison U (VA)
- Louisiana
State U
- Lynchburg
College (VA)
- Metropolitan
Community College, Omaha
- Moravian
College (PA)
- North
Carolina State U
- North
Dakota State U
- Northern Illinois U
- Ohio
State U - Mansfield
- Olivet
College (IL)
- Portland
State U
- Roanoke
College (VA)
- Rose-Hulman
IT (IN)
- Rutgers
U
- Saint
Cloud State U (MN)
- Saint
Joseph College (CT)
- Saint
Louis U
- Saint
Mary's College (IN)
- San
Juan College (NM)
- Seton
Hall U
- Sonoma
State U (CA)
- Southern
Connecticut State U
- Suffolk
County Community College (NY)
- Texas A&M U - Commerce
- Texas
A&M U - Corpus Christi
- Texas
Woman's U
- Tidewater
Community College (VA)
- U
of Akron
- U
of Arkansas at Little Rock
- U
of CaliforniaIrvine
- U
of California - Santa Barbara
- U
of California - Santa Cruz
- U
of Cincinnati
- U
of Findlay (OH)
- U
of Florida
- U
of Illinois - Chicago
- U
of Louisville
- U
of Maine
- U of Massachusetts - Boston
- U
of Miami
- U
of Michigan - Dearborn
- U
of Notre Dame
- U
of Tulsa
- U
of Washington
- U
of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
- U
of Wyoming
- University
College at IUPUI
- Virginia
Wesleyan College
- Washington
State U
- Western
Kentucky U
- West
Virginia U
- Willamette
U (OR)
- William
Jewell College (MO)
- Winona
State U (MN)
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