Portfolio Evaluation for Students Completing Bob Broad's Senior Seminar
(English 300)

This is Professor Bob Broad’s evaluation of the semester’s coursework completed by:

(Student’s Name) ________________________________________

Date of evaluation: _________________________

To help you learn and improve your work, I have already commented substantially on your projects during the semester. In this summary evaluation I will provide only brief comments--if any--on your work. My job at this point is to judge your work against the standards we have developed within our course and that I have developed during my years teaching these courses.

At this time, I am looking mainly for two things: changes in your work since I last saw it (e.g., all evidence of your writing process on major project[s], new journal entries) and a sense of how your work looks all collected in your portfolio and considered as a final and whole product. I will read the contents of your portfolio and judge each of the major elements as falling into one of five categories of quality. I use a number to represent each category of judgment: 4 = "Excellent, Outstanding"; 3 = "Good, Impressive"; 2 = "Adequate, Satisfactory"; 1 = "Poor, Unsatisfactory"; 0 (zero) = "No Credit." (Note also the correspondence between these numbers and the letter grades listed below.)

The final grade I assign to your work in the course records my synthesis of the judgments I make concerning the major elements of your work in the course. Here is the meaning that each letter grade carries for me:

• A = "Outstanding, excellent." Your work shows exceptional strengths and few or no major weaknesses.

• B = "Good." Your work shows significant strengths, and/or exceptional strengths are offset by some significant weaknesses.

• C = "Adequate, satisfactory." The strengths and weaknesses of your work are roughly equally balanced. (Please note: the grade of C does not mean "average"; it is most likely neither the mean, the median, nor the mode of the grades I will give.)

• D = "Poor." I find more significant weaknesses in your work than I do strengths.

• F = "Failing." Your work does not meet my minimum expectations for work in this course, and does not therefore merit credit for the course.

	Process (50%)	Product (50%)	Combined Grade (process & product)	Notes
Major  Research Project
Retrofolio Preface
Retrofolio Contents
Response Journal Quantity and quality of entries
Class Participation Including attendance, preparation, listening, speaking, and Colloquium Presentation
Other Portfolio Materials Including Preface/Introduction, Table of Contents, process documentation, responses to and support of others’ work, and completeness and organization of portfolio (use dividers!)

 

Grade for the course: ________