COMM Professional Portfolio Evaluation Procedures

COMM Class of 2012 Portfolio Mentors & Evaluators

Evaluation Procedures:

1. By the end of November 2010 (or earlier as determined), each student COMM major will be expected to obtain a review of his/her portfolio with his/her COMM faculty mentor. Take his/her advice!!
    

2. By Wednesday, February 1, 2012, each senior portfolio must be ready for evaluation by the two assigned COMM faculty members.  The evaluation will be guided by the COMM portfolio   Evaluation Rubric  and will use a 5 point scale. Links to the evaluation rubric is found here and below.  Use those evaluation criteria as you write and edit your reflection statements.
    

3. Evaluation will NOT involve "re-grading" artifacts but will, rather, focus primarily on the students' understanding of how goals have been met and demonstrated in the artifacts as revealed in reflection statements.
    

4. Once each faculty evaluator has scored each goal (i.e. I., II., etc..) for a portfolio, the two evaluators will meet to discuss their scores and reach a "consensus" score for each goal. These scores will determine the portfolio grade and will be recorded for assessment purposes.  The evaluators will also prepare comments to accompany the scores as feedback to the student.
    

5. An acceptable portfolio will achieve a 3.0 or better average score and no more than one score less than 3.0 on any specific goal (e.g. I., II. III., IV) in each category.
    

6. Results of portfolio evaluations will be available to students by February 29 or before.  Should a student's portfolio receive less than a passing score, that student will have until March 21 to make revisions and correct deficiencies at which time the evaluators will review the portfolio for a second time.  Normally the department will not review a portfolio more than twice in a single semester.  Students who do not pass the portfolio on the second attempt can expect to register for and repeat COMM 421 at a later time.

Evaluation Rubric

• COMM Portfolio Evaluation Rubrics Scoring Sheet (.pdf)  

last updated 9/25/2011