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Requirements

To help promote the reliability and validity of the portfolio assessment process, ODE and CETE/OSU worked together to establish the following requirements:

Assessor Selection

A person scoring Teaching Professions portfolios must:

  • be a licensed educator (e.g. principal, college partner, mentor teacher, counselor, field experience cooperating teacher, Educational Service Center staff);
  • be selected and trained by the Teaching Professions teacher on how to score the portfolio;.

Assessment Procedures

  • The WebXam website is available 24/7. An assessor may enter portfolio scores at any time of day. Evaluations do not need to take place at school.
  • Each assessor should allot 1-2 hours per portfolio.

Assessment Policies

  • Two outside assessors are required per portfolio.
  • Each assessor must evaluate the entire portfolio.
  • An assessor may grade more than one portfolio.
  • Assessors should not share student scores with teachers.
  • Once the assessor submits a score in WebXam, the score is final (cannot be changed).
  • In case a third assessor is required, WebXam will notify the teacher.
  • Student rubric comments can only be printed in WebXam.
  • A teacher does not collect assessors’ scoring rubrics.
  • A teacher is not present during the scoring of a rubric.
  • Teachers are responsible for the training of assessors, so that they understand the process and therefore minimize errors that have an impact on student learners.