Synopses & Reviews
Praise for The Learning Portfolio
Second Edition
"John Zubizarreta understands students, faculty, and teaching and learning. This book will help both novices and senior faculty to use portfolios to increase their own understanding and to enrich their students' learning." Wilbert McKeachie, author, McKeachie's Teaching Tips?"With fourteen new chapters featuring exemplary uses of learning portfolios, this second edition is like a brand new book. But it preserves all the recommendations for implementing learning portfolios that made the first edition so useful to faculty." Linda B. Nilson, director, Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation, Clemson University, and author, Teaching at Its Best and The Graphic Syllabus and the Outcomes Map
"The Learning Portfolio represents a clear, organized, reflective, and effective way to direct and document student learning. It is a must-have for any faculty member or university administrator concerned about demonstrating attainment of important learning outcomes, and for faculty developers assisting instructional staff in designing effective and engaging courses." James E. Groccia, director, Biggio Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, Auburn University, and former president, Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
?"The Learning Portfolio provides a credible tool for assessing and improving student learningcritical aspects when documenting program and institutional effectiveness. John Zubizarreta's clear and pragmatic discussion of the learning portfolio empowers all who care about student learning to succeed in ways that can make a transformative difference in the lives of students." Mary Lou Higgerson, vice president for academic affairs and dean, Baldwin-Wallace College, and coauthor, Effective Leadership Communication
?"If we want students to become self-directing learners, they must become more aware of themselves as learners. There is no other tool that has more power to contribute to this process than well-designed learning portfolios." L. Dee Fink, author, Creating Significant Learning Experiences
Synopsis
The learning portfolio is a powerful complement to traditional measures of student achievement and a compelling and widely diverse method of recording intellectual growth. Portfolio strategies involve students in a higher order, critically reflective process that enriches and refines their educational experience, helping to make them more aware of their own learning at more sophisticated levels. The value of portfolios in improving student learning resides in engaging students not just in collecting and selecting representative artifacts of their work but in addressing critically stimulating questions such as what one has learned; how was it learned; when was it learned and how does it fit into a comprehensive, continual plan for learning; what difference has the learning made in one's intellectual, personal, and ethical development; and why was it valuable to learn at all.
This second edition offers:
- New samples of print and electronic learning portfolios from across disciplines and institutions
- An academic understanding of and rationale for learning portfolios
- Practical information that can be custom tailored to suit many disciplinary, pedagogical, programmatic, and institutional needs
- A foundation for and review of the value of reflective practice in student learning and how learning portfolios support assessment and collaboration
- Diverse contributions from practitioners at two- and four-year institutions in the United States and Canada
- Revised sample assignment sheets, guidelines, criteria, evaluation rubrics, and other material for developing print and electronic portfolios
Synopsis
The learning portfolio is a powerful complement to traditional measures of student achievement and a widely diverse method of recording intellectual growth. This second edition of this important book offers new samples of print and electronic learning portfolios. An academic understanding of and rationale for learning portfolios and practical information that can be customized. Offers a review of the value of reflective practice in student learning and how learning portfolios support assessment and collaboration. Includes revised sample assignment sheets, guidelines, criteria, evaluation rubrics, and other material for developing print and electronic portfolios.
About the Author
John Zubizarreta is professor of English and director of honors and faculty development at Columbia College, South Carolina. He is a frequent conference presenter and consultant, and he has mentored educators internationally on developing teaching, learning, and administrative portfolios.
Table of Contents
About the Author.
About the Contributors.
Foreword to the Second Edition.
Foreword to the First Edition.
Preface to the Second Edition.
Acknowledgments.
PART 1: ABOUT STUDENT LEARNING PORTFOLIOS.
1. An Overview of Student Learning Portfolios.
2. Practical Questions and Issues About Student Learning Portfolios.
3. Important Factors in Developing and Using Student Learning Portfolios.
4. Electronic Learning Portfolios.
PART 2: MODELS OF LEARNING PORTFOLIOS.
5. Learning Portfolios in the Humanities Classroom: Promoting Intentional Learning by Helping Students Uncover What Is Meaningful to Them (Dorothe J. Bach).
6. Getting Started with Portfolios: A Vision for Implementing Reflection to Enhance Student Learning (Stephanie Burrell, Laurence Miners, Kathryn Nantz, and Roben Torosyan).
7. The Oral Health E-portfolio: A Three-Year Project (Russell Butson, Jennifer Marie Cook, and Rosemary Kardos).
8. EPAC: Building a Community of Practice Around E-portfolios (Helen L. Chen and John C. Ittelson).
9. Encouraging a Refl ective Disposition: Scaffolding Critical Thought Through Portfolio Development (Ann C. Cunningham).
10. A Journey Involving Integrating an E-portfolio into a Course Management System (Marilyn Drury).
11. The E-portfolio and Liberal Arts Education at Agnes Scott College (Emily Hauck, Olivia White Lopez, and Shannon Yarbrough).
12. The LeBow College of Business My LIFEfolio: An E-portfolio Program (Frank Linnehan).
13. Learning Portfolios in a Sophomore-Level Composition and Literature Course (Leslie Ortquist-Ahrens).
14. A Journal of Citizenship: Orienting First-Year Students to Liberal Education (Elizabeth Regosin and Ronald J. O. Flores).
15. Representing, Not Testing: Webfolio as Final Exam (Donna Reiss).
16. Challenging Tertiary Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices: Facilitating Change and Development Through Portfolios (Rachel Spronken-Smith and Sarah Stein).
17. The English Language E-portfolio (Fiona Williams, Vicki Chan, and Hokling Cheung).
18. Upon Further Review: A Second Look at the Student Learning Portfolio (Alan Wright and M. Heather Hartley).
PART 3: SAMPLE LEARNING PORTFOLIO SELECTIONS.
19. Education Technology Web Site (Robyn Allen).
20. Learning Portfolio (Alicia I. Gilbert).
21. Learning Portfolio Refl ections (Diana Lynde).
22. PowerPoint Portfolio (Lindsay Perani).
23. Honors Portfolio (Connie Thackaberry).
24. Career Portfolio (Josee Vaillant).
PART 4: PRACTICAL MATERIALS.
25. Self-Assessment.
26. Four-Year Portfolio Development Plan.
27. Portfolio Evaluation Form Contents Checklist.
28. Showcase/Electronic Portfolio Evaluation Form.
29. Webfolio Assignment.
30. Learning Portfolio Project.
31. Online Refl ective Writing: Instructions for Threaded Discussion.
32. Portfolio Reflections.
33. Honors Senior Portfolio Option: Contract and Guidelines.
34. Criteria for Evaluating Learning Portfolios.
35. Double-Column Notes for Reflection.
36. Learning Portfolio Assignment.
37. Sample Student Reflections.
38. Review and Revision Process and Submission Letter for Webfolios.
39. Rubric for Evaluating Webfolios.
40. Refl ective Writing Assignment.
41. Report Guidelines: Sample Questions for Reflection.
42. Promoting Intentional Learning Assignment.
43. Evaluation Rubric for Reflective Essays.
44. Reflections in Technology Portfolios.
45. Technology in Education Web Page.
References.
Index.