ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the relationship between mass testing as a means of evaluation of school and student performance and how this process may affect or drive the curriculum. The dilemma is whether to design curriculum and then evaluate it based on criteria and techniques applicable to its content or based on its design evaluation devices. The chapter describes some portfolio designs that include student data collection. The modeling activity in this system is the development of visual formats or multimedia formats through which users can illustrate the content and knowledge being documented in each stream. The chapter reviews the Madeja Visual Modeling of Information System (MVMIS) model was presented to the class that stressed the importance of the student taking responsibility for organizing the knowledge stream. MVMIS format used to develop the design of multimedia portfolios in the project's research at Northern Illinois Univerisity on the feasibility of the electronic portfolio as an alternative assessment device for visual learning.
