E-Porfolios in Higher Education

The purpose of this survey is to discover what strategies and uses institutions of higher learning employ when implementing e-portfolios in their settings. (By e-portfolios, we mean any use of electronic or digital ways of archiving data in a portfolio form, for any purpose, within higher education.) This survey will take approximately 10-20 minutes of your time and involves no more risks than those ordinarily encountered in daily life. There is no tangible benefit or compensation you will receive from participating in this survey.

The results of this study are to be published in an upcoming book entitled, Informing, Educating, Assessing, and Managing Effectively with e-Portfolios: Applications in Education, Business, & Public Service, along with possible future journal article publication.

Information obtained during this study which could identify you will be kept strictly confidential. Your survey responses will be automatically submitted to a secure server. In any papers or presentations done from this research, individual responses will be presented in aggregate form without any institutional affiliation identified.

You have the right to withdraw from participation at any time or to choose not to participate or to answer only a few of the questions on the survey and submit them. By doing so, you will not be penalized in any way. Please note the final three questions are required as indicated by a red asterisk (*). These questions request your title, the name of your institution and the type of institution.

If you have any questions about your participation, you may contact Dr. April Chatham-Carpenter at chatham@uni.edu or 319-273-5901, or the office of the Human Participants Coordinator, University of Northern Iowa, at 319-273-2748, for answers to questions about rights of research participants and the participant review process. If you are willing to participate in this study, please continue with the survey questions that follow.

1. When did your institution first start using e-portfolios?

2. Are students at your institution required to develop an e-portfolio?

3. For which of the purposes below did you originally start using e-portfolios? (Check all that apply.)

	To reflect on learning in a course/s (an individual faculty member use for his/her courses)
	For career-related purposes (i.e., for students to showcase skills, learning, & achievements to potential employers)
	For program review or assessment (for departmental or program outcomes assessment or review or accreditation)
	To showcase professional standards (to meet state education standards, for example)
	Other: Please Specify:

4. Which of the purposes below are your e-portfolios used for today? (Check all that apply.)

	To reflect on learning in a course(s)
	For career-related purpose (i.e., for students to showcase their skills, learning, & achievements to potential employers)
	For program review or assessment
	To showcase professional standards (to meet education standards, for example)
	Other: Please Specify

5. What e-portfolio solution (e.g., program, platform, product) does your school use today?

6. What other solutions(s) have you used for e-portfolios in the past?

7. Why don't you use this/those solution(s) anymore?

8. What was the primary reason you chose your current e-portfolio solution?

9. Did you use any type of guidelines for selecting your current e-portfolio solution? If so, please specify, in the next question (Question 10).

10. If you answered YES to the previous question (Question 9), please specify the type of guidelines for selecting your current e-portfolio solution in the text box below.

11. What policies and procedures has your institution implemented concerning e-portfolios?

12. Who makes purchasing and policy/procedure decisions concerning e-portfolios at your institution? (Check all that apply.)

	Academic departmental administration
	Faculty
	Information technology personnel
	Students
	Advisory Board (if selected, please specify constituent representation in question number 13.)
	Other: Please Specify

13. If you checked "Advisory board" in question number 12, please specify the constituency of the advisory board here. If not checked, please disregard this question and proceed with question number 14.

14. What type of training do you provide for students and faculty for e-portfolio development? (Check all that apply.)

	Online workshops
	Face-to-face workshops (outside of class)
	In class teaching sessions
	Other: Please Specify

15. What topics do you address in your e-portfolio training? (Check all that apply.)

	Best practices in e-portfolio development
	How-to training on your e-portfolio program
	Department/Program specific requirements
	State mandated standards/requirements
	Other: Please Specify

16. Who provides your e-portfolio training? (Check all that apply.)

	Faculty for their own students
	Educational technology personnel
	Career/Placement Services personnel
	Academic Advising personnel
	Teaching/graduate assistants
	Other undergraduate assistants
	Other: Please Specify

17. What do you see as the greatest benefit(s) of your school's use of e-portfolios?

18. What do you see as the greatest challenge(s) in using e-portfolios?

19. If you have a sample or actual e-portfolios publicly available via the web which you'd be willing to share, please provide the URL.

20. What would you recommend to other institutions in general, in terms of implementing the use of e-portfolios on a university or college campus?

21. Please list any especially valuable e-portfolio resources of which you're aware from which other institutions might benefit.

22. Please provide any additional comments you wish to make regarding e-portfolios in higher education.

23. What is your title? Required Question

24. What is the name of your institution? Required Question

25. What type of institution is it? (Check all that apply.) Required Question

	2 year college
	4 year liberal arts or private college
	Master's degree granting university
	Ph.D. degree granting university
	Other: Please Specify