Portfolios
All liberal arts and secondary education history majors must submit a portfolio of their work to the History Department for the purpose of programmatic assessment. It is expected that portfolios will provide developmental rather than summary evidence of students' performance and that portfolio artifacts will reflect the department's learning outcomes.
Portfolio Requirements
You will explain how an artifact from a required course addresses a particular standard. An artifact is considered to be a substantial piece of evidence (e.g. term papers, critical book reviews, critical essays, document analysis, reaction papers or exams) of your work in required courses.
Artifacts
Your portfolio should include the following artifacts:
- HIST 200 or HIST 282
- HIST 361 or HIST 389
- Select artifacts from two upper-level courses (200- and 300-level courses), with at least one from a 300-level course
Contents of Portfolio
- Cover Sheet: The cover sheet provides an overview of the course artifacts you are submitting and their connection to the departmental outcomes. You should also include a personal assessment summary that explains your areas of strength and weakness in meeting the departmental outcomes.
- Introduction: Write a brief introduction to your portfolio that summarizes the content of the artifacts and how each addresses the Department’s learning outcomes
- Common Artifact: All student portfolios will include two common artifacts. These artifacts are the main papers from: HIST 200 (The Nature of Historical Inquiry) or HIST 282 (History Matters II: Historical Research) and HIST 361 (Research Seminar in History) or HIST 389 (History Matters III: Senior Research Project.)
- Additional Artifacts: All student portfolios will include two additional artifacts from upper-level history courses. As you choose your artifacts, take care to see that all of the departmental outcomes are represented across the artifacts.
Please Note: A single artifact is not expected to address all, or even most, of the indicators of a particular standard or departmental outcome.
Procedure
Each student completing the portfolio has been assigned a shared folder. Check your email for shared link.
- For each artifact, create a single file that contains your cover page, Intro essay, and the artifact from the course. Please be sure that the professor’s name appears on the cover page.
- Upload the artifact into the appropriate folder.
- Share the folder with the course instructor.
If you have any questions, please contact Professor Kiser at akiser@ric.edu.
Portfolio Requirements for Secondary Education Majors, with Concentration in History
All secondary education majors must submit a portfolio of their work to the History Department for the purpose of programmatic assessment. It is expected that portfolios will provide developmental rather than summary evidence of students' performance and that portfolio artifacts will reflect the NCSS Thematic Standards and the department’s learning outcomes.
You will document content knowledge for each of these standards by explaining how an artifact from a required course addresses a particular standard. An artifact is considered to be a substantial evidence (e.g. term papers, critical book reviews, critical essays, document analysis, reaction papers or exams) of your work in required courses.
Artifacts
Your portfolio should include the following artifacts:
- HIST 200 or HIST 282
- HIST 362 or HIST 389
- Select artifacts from two upper-level courses (200- and 300-level courses), with at least one from a 300 level course
Contents of Portfolio
- Cover Sheet: The cover sheet (see attached) provides an overview of the course artifacts you are submitting and their connection to the NCSS Thematic Standards. You should also include a personal assessment summary that explains your areas of strength and weakness in meeting both the departmental outcomes and the NCSS standards.
- Introduction: Write a brief introduction to your portfolio that summarizes the content of the artifacts and how each addresses the Department’s learning outcomes and the NCSS Thematic Strands.
- Common Artifacts: All student portfolios will include two common artifacts. These artifacts are the main paper from both: HIST 200 (The Nature of Historical Inquiry) or HIST 282 (History Matters II: Historical Research) and HIST 362 (Reading Seminar in History) or HIST 389 (History Matters III: Senior Research Project).
- Additional Artifacts: All student portfolios will include two additional artifacts from upper-level history courses. As you choose your artifacts take care to see that all of the departmental outcomes and NCSS Thematic Strands are represented across the artifacts.
Please Note: A single artifact is not expected to address all, or even most, of the indicators of a particular standard or departmental outcome.
Procedure
Each student completing the portfolio has been assigned a shared folder. Check your email for shared link.
- For each artifact, create a single file that contains your cover page, Intro essay, and the artifact from the course. Please be sure that the professor’s name appears on the cover page.
- Upload the artifact into the appropriate folder.
- Share the folder with the course instructor.
If you have any questions, please contact Professor April Kiser at akiser@ric.edu.
Submission Dates
Submit your portfolios upon the conclusion of your programmatic requirements in history. For most of you, this will occur in your senior year following conclusion of your HIST 361 or HIST 389 seminar paper. The submission is required for completion of the course. Secondary education students submit their portfolios in a two-stage process. All artifacts, except the seminar paper (HIST 362 or HIST 389), must be submitted prior to taking SED 410, the history/social studies practicum. The seminar paper must be submitted upon completion of the practicum. Remember, the portfolio is an admission requirement for student teaching. Secondary education students must also take the Praxis II Content Exam as part of the admission process for student teaching.
