Adapting Diagnostic Digital Portfolio Technology to Track Assessments of Advanced Student Learning Outcomes in Analysis and Problem Solving Abilities

该项目将阿尔维诺学院的数字诊断组合(DDP)技术应用于高级SMT课程，以实现几个目标。这些措施包括监测和建立SMT主要项目的连贯性；确定和描述SMT课程中DDP的实施如何影响评估过程；确定、描述和比较非SMT课程中的DDP如何影响SMT评估；以及使用DDP来研究在分析问题解决方面的差异和共同点。这将使人们对适应技术创新的方式不仅对自然科学领域产生影响，而且通过比较分析对其他学科产生影响提供重要的理解。这个项目在阿尔维诺学院之外的更广泛的好处将是分析和描述适应DDP评估技术的过程，并试图描述这种评估技术对学生学习和成绩的影响。

This project adapts Alverno College's Digital Diagnostic Portfolio (DDP) technology for advanced level SMT courses to address several goals. These include monitoring and building coherence within the major programs in SMT; identifying and describing how the implementation of DDP in SMT curricula affects assessment processes; identifying, describing and comparing how DDP in non-SMT curricula affects assessment in SMT; and using DDP to study the differences and commonalties in analytic problem solving. This will provide important understanding of the ways in which adapting technological innovations impacts not only the natural science fields but, through comparative analyses, other disciplines as well. The wider benefit of this project outside of Alverno College will be in analyzing and describing the process of adapting the DDP assessment technology and in attempting to describe the effects of such assessment technology upon student learning and achievement.