Electronic Portfolios May Answer Calls for More Accountability

A decade ago, the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology had a few simple goals. It wanted to sharpen its educational mission, broaden students' skills, improve graduates' job-placement rates, and give the institution better ammunition for proving its worth to accreditors.

It turned to the "electronic portfolio," becoming one of a small but growing number of institutions using an old idea — the long-term compilation of student classwork — in a new computerized format

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