BloomBoard units and courses are designed for participants to demonstrate their competency through a portfolio of evidence. It is outlined in the BloomBoard Policy & Guidelines for Working Together on a Micro-credential that every portfolio of evidence must be unique and demonstrate the individual competency of the submitting participant.
There will be exceptions to this policy when a “shared team artifact” has been approved by BloomBoard. These exceptions will be by artifact and will be clearly communicated in the directions for that artifact.
Artifact Directions Example for Use of a Shared Team Artifact
Assessment Calibration
When certifying and calibrating, BloomBoard follows Cohen’s Kappa Statistic, where an assessor is considered calibrated and in “near perfect agreement” when achieving an 80% agreement to a true score.
Portfolios of evidence, once submitted through the BloomBoard platform, are given an ID number to provide platform participants with anonymity and the assessment process objectivity. As a result, assessors will not know the participant, the district, or any relationship between the submitted portfolio and a peer’s portfolio. In addition, a team of assessors and approvers is assigned to a unit title. Therefore, it is possible that a shared team artifact may not be assessed exactly the same across multiple submissions. See “Assessment of Shared Team Artifacts” below for directions on how to follow up when there is a discrepancy in the assessment of your shared team artifact.
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Assessment of Shared Team Artifacts
If you and a peer have submitted the same “shared team artifact” and the assessment of that artifact does not align with the assessment of your peer’s, please contact support@bloomboard.com. Include the unit title, the artifact description, the issue, and your peer’s name. BloomBoard Support will follow up with the Assessment Team, who will analyze and problem solve.