Benchmark portfolio

A benchmark portfolio presents a snapshot of your students' learning that occurs in one of your courses. This portfolio enables you to document your current teaching practices and to generate questions about your teaching that you would like to investigate further.

Example: Dana Fritz's Benchmark Portfolio

Inquiry portfolio

An inquiry portfolio is useful for documenting improvement in teaching your course over time and for assessing the long-term impact of teaching changes, the success of teaching approaches, and the improvement in student learning. This inquiry process often moves teachers toward scholarship-of-teaching questions in their disciplines.

Example: Dana Fritz's Inquiry Portfolio

From "Making Teaching and Learning Visible" in the book by the same name, by Daniel Bernstein, Amy Nelson Burnett, Amy Goodburn, and Paul Savory.