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Undergraduate Learning Portfolios for Institutional Assessment
Author(s) -
HEINRICHER ARTHUR C.,
MILLER JUDITH E.,
SCHACHTERLE LANCE,
KILDAHL NICHOLAS K.,
BLUEMEL VAN,
CRAWFORD VALERIE
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.896
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 2168-9830
pISSN - 1069-4730
DOI - 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2002.tb00699.x
Subject(s) - portfolio , plan (archaeology) , career portfolio , mathematics education , test (biology) , scale (ratio) , medical education , psychology , position (finance) , computer science , engineering management , pedagogy , engineering , business , career development , medicine , finance , paleontology , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , biology , history
Our objectives were to develop a model of student portfolios that simultaneously promotes student learning, provides useful outcomes assessment data, and is logistically feasible. From our pilot test of three portfolio models, we conclude that requiring students in selected courses to complete portfolio entries solves most of the logistics problems associated with a large‐scale portfolio plan. Such entries can promote learning by providing a focus for career and educational planning discussions between students and faculty academic advisors. Course faculty are probably in the best position to use the outcomes assessment data obtained from the entries.