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March 29, 2017
The Learning Portfolio: Reflective Practice for Improving Student Learning
- Author
- Zubizarreta, John
- Publisher
- Anker Publishing, Bolton, MA
The learning portfolio—grounded in a process of reflection, evidence, and collaboration—is a rich, flexible document that engages students in continuous, thoughtful analysis of their learning.
The portfolio may be paper, electronic, or another creative medium, but at its center, the power of writing and reflection combine in the portfolio with purposeful, selective collection and assessment of learning endeavors and outcomes to improve learning. Straightforward and easy to understand, this book offers readers both an academic understanding of and rationale for learning portfolios and practical information that can be custom tailored to suit many disciplinary, pedagogical, programmatic, and institutional needs.
The Learning Portfolio reflects the intellectual growth and excitement that both professors and students have experienced in developing learning portfolios.
Organized into four parts, this book includes:
• A foundation for and review of the value of reflective practice in student learning and how learning portfolios support reflection, sound assessment, and collaboration
• Diverse contributions by practitioners in two- and four-year institutions in the U.S. and Canada who implement portfolios in a variety of ways, including the use of digital technology
• Fourteen practical and adaptable examples of actual student learning portfolios
• A wealth of assignment sheets, guidelines, criteria, evaluation rubrics, and other materials used in developing print and electronic learning portfolios from across disciplines, programs, and types of institutions in higher education (From the Publisher)
The portfolio may be paper, electronic, or another creative medium, but at its center, the power of writing and reflection combine in the portfolio with purposeful, selective collection and assessment of learning endeavors and outcomes to improve learning. Straightforward and easy to understand, this book offers readers both an academic understanding of and rationale for learning portfolios and practical information that can be custom tailored to suit many disciplinary, pedagogical, programmatic, and institutional needs.
The Learning Portfolio reflects the intellectual growth and excitement that both professors and students have experienced in developing learning portfolios.
Organized into four parts, this book includes:
• A foundation for and review of the value of reflective practice in student learning and how learning portfolios support reflection, sound assessment, and collaboration
• Diverse contributions by practitioners in two- and four-year institutions in the U.S. and Canada who implement portfolios in a variety of ways, including the use of digital technology
• Fourteen practical and adaptable examples of actual student learning portfolios
• A wealth of assignment sheets, guidelines, criteria, evaluation rubrics, and other materials used in developing print and electronic learning portfolios from across disciplines, programs, and types of institutions in higher education (From the Publisher)