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Title: Using Student Portfolios with Facts.org


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Using Student Portfolioswith Facts.org
  • Toni Ripo
  • Career Resource Advisor
  • MCC 752-5325

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Overview
  • CRC OCO web pages
  • Career Portfolio skills matrix, artifacts
    demo
  • Research
  • Technical requirements
  • Evidence of learning outcomes
  • Brainstorm ways to integrate CP into the
    classroom
  • Uses, support and anticipated implications
  • Florida Academic Counseling Tracking for
    Students (Facts.org) web pages

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Career Portfolio
  • Interactive, web-based tool
  • Define, Describe and Demonstrate
  • Stores academic and out-of-classroom experiences
    in a database
  • Showcase of student success
  • Customized into 3 portfolios for different
    purposes

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In the skills matrix, students can
  • Reflect on their academic and out-of-classroom
    experiences
  • Describe course work
  • Translate learning outcomes into skills employers
    value.
  • Seek out opportunities to build skills
  • On-going

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Helping students to use the portfolio
  • Reflect on course syllabus and course assignments
    describe activities, accomplishments and
    knowledge gained.
  • Store completed assignments in one centralized
    location
  • Identify current skills and activities to build
    new skills

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The Career Portfolio collection can include
  • Course descriptions
  • Résumé
  • Transcript
  • References
  • Letters of reference
  • Artifacts - demonstrate learning outcomes

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Artifacts
  • PowerPoint presentations
  • Research papers
  • Personal statements
  • Photographs, pictures, images, drawings
  • ( .jpg, .tiff, .gif)
  • Music or audio files (.mp3)
  • Video files ( .mpg, .mov., avi)
  • Web sites

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Portfolio Databank Items
Resume 1
Resume 2
Artifact 1 Term Paper
Artifact 2 Drawing
Skill 1 Creativity
Skill 2 Communication
Produced by Jimmy Yawn - SFCC
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Research
  • Developed by FSU and licensed to Facts.org.
  • Free online access to Floridas public
    postsecondary students.
  • Scans skills 21st century skills
  • Within the first two years 16,000 FSU students
    used the Career Portfolio.
  • Survey of 200 employers 88 Useful
  • 87 Use to screen applicants (29 - 43)

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Student Feedback
  • Pilot 132 students
  • Several students cited the skills matrix as being
    the best feature.
  • Allows me to store information in an orderly
    fashion. Its easy to access
  • Organizes information in one central location.

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Intent and frequency of use
  • INTENT
  • Track store learning experiences 50
  • Store a project 46
  • Store resume 80
  • FREQUENCY
  • Once a semester to several times per month 39

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Technical requirements
  • PC Internet connection
  • 10 MB indefinitely
  • Storage space can be increased
  • Active student ID at a public college or
    university
  • Orientation, training and support
  • Logistical requirements (not completed in one
    sitting)

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Strategic Alignment Amended 2/18/2004
Proposals for Legislative Amendments to Higher
Education Act Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools, Principles of
Accreditationhttp//www.sacscoc.org/pdf/Principle
sOfAccreditation.PDF
  • The 2004 amendments will require institutions, as
    part of the Accreditation Review process to
    document compliance with federal criteria for
    continuing accreditation (Section 4, Federal
    Requirements)
  • Institutions will expand their efforts to provide
    useful information about student performance both
    to students and the public at large, using the
    increasingly rich data emerging from programs to
    assess student learning.
  • Eligible institutions must accurately describe a
    summary of student outcomes, qualitative and
    quantitative, appropriate to the institutional
    mission and goals, including placement rates for
    professional and vocational programs.

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MCC Mission Strategic Goals
  • Manatee Community College provides an
    accessible, dynamic learning
  • environment that facilitates the
    achievement of educational, professional, and
  • personal goals by our students and
    members of our communities in an
  • atmosphere that embraces academic
    excellence, diversity, and innovation.
  • MCC Strategic Priorities 
  • Provide excellence in education to prepare
    students for a diverse and changing world.
  • Enhance student success by providing quality
    student and academic support services.
  • Expand and improve the technology of the College
    so as to better prepare students for the 21st
    century and to better serve faculty and staff.
  • Develop an ongoing system of program evaluation,
    long-term planning and self-assessment to meet
    institutional goals and enhance institutional
    effectiveness.
  • 9. Enhance the College's image, visibility
    and distinction as an institution.

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Accreditation and Accountability
  • The College Career Portfolio serves as a
    valuable
  • resource because
  • Learning is more than an aggregation of grades
    and fragmented coursework
  • Learning is a process of constructing meaning,
    developing strategies, reflecting on experiences,
    meaningful application of new knowledge and
    skills
  • FACTS.org intentionally integrates learning
    opportunities and documents the points that
    specifically address learning goals and workforce
    competencies

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Process and ProductTechnology that offers a
competency model of individual performance
  • The Product
  • A useful web based tool
  • Showcases career development
  • Provides impressive electronic communication
    between students and employers, faculty, or
    graduate schools
  • Electronic storage of 10 MB of text, graphics,
    sound, and links
  • The Process
  • A powerful learning tool
  • Facilitates awareness of career competencies and
    planning
  • Structured, self-guided matrix involves student
    participation in a continuous process of
    reflection and inquiry
  • Captures evidence of learning outcomes related to
    workforce competencies

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Uses for a customized online presentation
  • Faculty requirement
  • College applications
  • Scholarship application
  • Employment applications
  • Faculty portfolios SACS Accreditation

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Support
  • Career Portfolio Tutorial
  • Career Portfolio Help
  • Skill definitions
  • Experience definitions
  • CRC classroom orientation
  • One-on-one student support
  • Facts.org technical support

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Anticipated Implications
  • Self-directed learning
  • Personal management
  • Documentation of academic and career successes
  • Increased self-esteem
  • Increase course relevancy
  • Greater connection between course work and
    workforce readiness
  • Make better career decisions

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What portfolios can do for students
  • Secure employment
  • Get a raise
  • Get a promotion
  • Improve performance reviews
  • Make career changes
  • Make lateral moves within an organization
  • Get new assignments

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Other Portfolio Resources
  • Florida Gulf Coast University
  • http//coe.fgcu.edu/faculty/valesky/Portfolios
    .htm
  • The Portfolio Clearinghouse-http//www.aahe.org/te
    aching/pfoliosearch3.cfm
  • TeachNet- http//teachnet.com/howto/employment/por
    tfolios/
  • Student Portfolio System Overview- Illinois
    State- http//portfolio.ilstu.edu/
  • The Kalamazoo Project- http//www.kzoo.edu/pfolio/
  • U. S. Department of Education www.ed.gov Key
    word search Portfolios
  • Wichita State - http//www.education.wichita.edu/,
    choose search, type in electronic portfolios,
    click on M3 Electronic Portfolios
  • The Minnesota e-folio- http//www.efoliomn.com/

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Brainstorm ways to integrate the portfolio into
your classroom
  • Require students to define your course in the
    skills matrix
  • Require students to upload successful assignments

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Where do we go from here?
  • Invite us into the classroom
  • Send students to the CRC
  • Encourage students to use the portfolio
  • Thank you. Any questions?

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www.facts.org
  • Career decisions
  • Career portfolio
  • Obtain unofficial transcripts
  • Admissions common online applications
  • Financial aid Bright Futures Scholarships
  • College advising, degree shopping, degree audits

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  • Thank you!
  • Any Questions?
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