Digital Academic Profiles (DAPs)

Description

A transformative vision for student-centered digital assessment.

Digital Academic Profiles (DAPs) presents an innovative framework that reimagines how colleges assess and support student achievement using informatics and digital tools. This forward-thinking publication introduces the DAPPERS™ system—a digital academic performance review platform that merges e-portfolios and digital profiles to reflect students’ academic and co-curricular journeys.

With rising demands for data-driven accountability in higher education, DAPs offers a robust, multi-dimensional approach to measuring learning outcomes and aligning student goals with institutional missions and industry standards. It incorporates performance artifacts, analytics, and the proprietary Performance Assessment Symmetry Score (PASS) to deliver deep insights into student development, program effectiveness, and academic fit.

Key insights include:

• Using e-portfolios as purposeful collections of student growth and achievement

• Creating digital profiles to document formal and informal learning experiences

• Assessing interest-major alignment and noncognitive factors influencing success

• System-wide design for equitable academic review, early alerts, and retention tracking

• Integrating accreditation standards and program goals through advanced informatics

Ideal for education leaders, faculty, data analysts, and accreditation professionals, this resource bridges the gap between assessment theory and institutional practice through an actionable, evidence-based system.