The next step in creating an action plan is understanding other professionals' experiences with the topic. Universally, EPortfolios is a mode of authentic, ongoing assessment that collects real demonstrations of continuous learning. Many resources document the benefits of ongoing cumulative assessment, dating back to ancient Greek times. My analysis of this topic will primarily focus on its effectiveness in a humanities environment and discuss how teachers and instructional leaders can apply the general cross-curricular principles. This study aims to make teachers and leaders aware of alternatives to traditional school assessment models. Collecting evidence of learning as assessment would not make learning and assessment mutually exclusive or singular events. Instead, learning is itself a form of long-term, ongoing assessment. The Purpose of this literature review will discover how they can effectively assess understanding using ePortfolios.

Metler uses the following definition for action research: “Action research is defined as any systematic inquiry conducted by teachers, administrators, counselors, or others with a vested interest in the teaching and learning process or environment to gather information about how their particular schools operate, how they teach, and how their students learn” (Mills, 2011). The goal of my studies is to create an action plan that is needed to implement my grassroots innovation plan in my classroom. The first step in creating the action plan was to create an outline.