Accompanying the petition is to be a receipt of payment of appropriate fees provided by the Bursar's Office. The acceptance of the petition and receipt of fee payment, in effect, registers the student for the awarding of credit by portfolio assessment in this course or courses. Two types of limitations are placed on the awarding of credit by portfolio assessment. The student compiles the portfolio within the guidelines established by the academic unit and submits the portfolio to the academic unit for assessment. The unit designates a faculty member or committee to conduct the portfolio assessment.
Faculty assess the portfolio and determine whether credit is to be awarded.
Academic standards in assessing the amount and quality of learning demonstrated by a portfolio are to be equivalent to the learning expected in the course when credit is acquired via instruction. No grades are assigned to credits awarded by portfolio assessment. Ordinarily, no partial credit for a course is to be awarded by portfolio assessment. Normally, the assessment is to be completed within a thirty-day period. In cases where the faculty determination is that no credit is to be awarded on the basis of the portfolio content presented, the faculty may elect to identify certain additional evidence or outline a restructuring of the presented evidence that, if provided, would likely change the assessment conclusion.