“I come to the Watermark conferences every year because it’s an opportunity to meet people who are a lot like me, who have the same problems that I have, and are looking for solutions, and in some cases they’ve found a solution that was right in front of me that …

“These portfolio projects were impressive and full of rich content, but no one would ever know. It seemed like a lost opportunity to not use portfolios as valuable houses of assessment data for the institution, and also as modes of helping students develop themselves professionally."