Whole Person Assessment
Assistance
| ORU's Whole Person Assessment: Winner of the CHEA AWARD
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- The 2nd Floor (GC) Academic Computing Lab (8 am - 10:30 pm most days)
- Email the ORU ePortfolio Help Line at eportfolio@oru.edu
- Call the ORU ePortfolio Help Line 918.495.7356
- Your APA or ADD. Ask about the One-2-One tutoring program (One-2-One Tutoring Link or the P.A.C.E. program P.A.C.E. Tutoring Link).
Submitting Assignments
Students are required to submit assignments to faculty members who then assess the work using the electronic based rubrics that interface online with the assignments. Students will receive specific assessment feedback and advisement on areas where improvement is needed to achieve the outcome for each assignment submitted.
Each undergraduate student creates a minimum of two ePortfolios, one for general education one for the major.
Students can see their WPA scores in the same manner that they access grades on VISION.
Whole Person Scholarships
Each year, more than 300 students receive the ORU Whole Person Scholarship. A freshman or transfer student can be nominated by a school, church or community leader or a member of the ORU faculty, staff or alumni. Nominees who are selected are invited to campus for a Scholarship Day Competition, where they are tested and also interviewed by faculty members. The results are evaluated and scholarship awards determined. All participants receive scholarship awards in varying amounts.
To maintain one’s scholarship, it is necessary to keep one’s Whole Person Assessment (WPA) score from ePortfolio evaluations at or above 3.1. Intermediate partial-tuition scholarship recipients must maintain a WPA score of at least 3.3, and full-tuition scholarship winners must maintain a score of at least 3.5.