From Paperwork to Pedagogy: providing formative assessment and meaningful feedback in real time with ePortfolios Key challenges As enrollment in Gonzaga’s Teacher Education programs expanded, managing the many complexities around tracking candidates’ progress and coordinating field placements and assessments became increasingly difficult. Their long-standing approach to assessment involved paper-based processes that had become inefficient, cumbersome, and unsustainable. For example, the simple act of scripting observational data in a field notebook while evaluating teaching lessons in the field took the reviewer’s focus away from the teaching practice being observed in the classroom. Having to transcribe the observations to document the assessments placed an enormous bu

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