The Learning Portfolio

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The Learning Portfolio

• Reflective Practice for Improving Student
  Learning
• POD Network in Higher Education
• 25-28 Oct. 2007
• Pittsburgh, PA USA
• John Zubizarreta
• Columbia College
• jzubizarreta_at_colacoll.edu

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The Learning Portfolio What Is It?

• A flexible, evidence-based process that combines
  reflection and documentation.
• A way of engaging students in ongoing,
  reflective, and collaborative analysis of
  learning.
• A means of focusing on purposeful, selective
  outcomes for both improving and assessing
  learning.
• -Adapted from The Learning Portfolio
  (Anker, 2004)

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Why definitions are important . . .
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Fortune Cookie SurpriseReflection/Collaboration/E
vidence

• Quad groups.
• Open fortune cookie.
• Reflect on fortune
• Resonates? Agree? Disagree?
• Evidence in Practice, or not?
• Share with group.

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Reflective or Meta-Purposeof Exercise

• What did you discover about Deep Learning!
• Reflection?
• Collaboration?
• Evidence?

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The Learning PortfolioReflection Mentoring
Evidence Learning!
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Piaget (1971), Kolb (1984), Zull (2002),Fink
(2003), and Metacognition

• Surface Knowledge (neuronal networks)
• Changing Cognitive Structure
• (conceptualization/experimentation,
  plasticity, synaptic connections)
• (Active Learning, Experiential Learning,
  Problem-Based Learning, Collaborative/Cooperative/
  Team-Based Learning, Critical Thinking,
  Mentoring, Educative Assessment, Self-Assessment)
• Deep or Significant Learning

Reflection Experience
Reflection Experience
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Table of Contents

• Philosophy of Learning
• Achievements in Learning
• Evidence of Learning
• Assessment of Learning
• Relevance of Learning
• Learning Goals
• Appendices

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Sample Questions for Student Reflection

• What?
• When?
• How?
• Difference?
• Valuable?
• Continual plan?
• . . .Why?

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The Importance of Selectivity An Example
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The Importance of Selectivity 2nd Example
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Ive got the small-college portfolio blu-u-ues!
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Crafting a Learning Portfolio Project

• Think about how you would design a learning
  portfolio project for your classroom, program, or
  institutional use. 1) What kinds of reflective
  questions would you ask students to address? 2)
  What kinds of evidence or learning outcomes would
  be most useful? 3) How would you engage students
  in collaboration and mentoring in the process?
• Purpose of Portfolio ______________________

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