college e-portfolio and he admissions peter rees jones

College e-Portfolio and HE admissions

Peter Rees Jones

What is an ePortfolio?

“…this is a really important point; we will have to re-engineer the data so that wherever you are in the education system the individual learner can demonstrate to another institution, an employer, or to a parent, what they have done, how they are succeeding and who they are.”

(Michael Stevenson head of DfES Technical Group January 2006) http://www.tes.co.uk/search/story/?story_id=2166552

http://www.tes.co.uk/search/story/?story_id=2166552



What is an ePortfolio?

“E-portfolios….are personal online spaces for students to access services and store work. They will become ever more useful as learners grow up and start moving between different types of learning and different institutions.”

(Ruth Kelly Secretary of State for Education, January 2006)

JISC have demonstrated that the service oriented approach of the e-Framework has the capacity to

reduce a complex problem such as ePortfolio for Lifelong Learning to

the simpler terms in which it becomes capable of practical

implementation

DfES TG are reviewing how JISC work, including the Nottingham work in schools, colleges and universities can contribute to

national developments

eP Reference Model: The Key Outcome

Knowledge Architecture

E-maturity

Personalised content

Strategic technology provision

A consistent system-wide framework to

guide delivery

A model for the deployment of

technology across the system

Driving a new model of content provision for

the individual

Supporting people and organisations &

measuring system level impact

The four transformational themes to take forward the e-strategy …

College e-Portfolio & HE admissions

“The JISC project…. is reviewing how admissions staff use information and evidence.

The project aims to make information and evidence available in an

accessible electronic form that can be customised to support the admissions process and give feedback to the applicant.

The Project is specifically examining the potential of entry criteria

and course information to structure the personal statement. This would allow academic staff to set prompts for their own courses.”

“UCAS and other admissions services should also consider the

inclusion of additional information to produce a fuller transcript of applicants’ achievement. A more informative application form may in itself reduce the need for additional testing”

(Stephen Schwartz Fair Admissions to higher education: recommendations for good practice p. 48; E9)

ePortfolio Initial Reference Model

ePortfolio

LearningPlans

Abstract Use Case:

A chain of Services

to produce an

Individual Learning

Plan for a learner applying to HE through UCAS

How could a college

implement the model?

ePortfolio

Assessment Results & comments

Assessment Service

LearningPlans

1.Trigger

1. An assessment result is posted to the learner through an ePortfolio.

• (The hatpin is an interface for the data to be passed into the ePortfolio)


ePortfolio


Assessment Service

Personal Development Service

LearningPlans

1.

2.

ePortfolio Initial Reference Model2. I call this information into an ePortfolio enabled Personal Development Service.

ePortfolio


Assessment Service


LearningPlans

Learner Goals

1.

2.

3.

ePortfolio Initial Reference Model3. The PD Service fetches the information I need to review the results against my goals...

ePortfolio


Assessment Service

Learner Reflections


Pathway Information Service

LearningPlans

Learner Goals

1.

2.

3.

4. 5.


5. …taking account of pathway information about the grades I need to meet my goals.

4. …in the context of past reflections…

3. The PD Service fetches the information I need to review the results against my goals...

ePortfolio


Assessment Service

Learner Reflections



LearningPlans

Learner Goals

1.

2.

3.

4. 5.

ePortfolio Identifying GapsAt this point I will probably want to chat informally with my friends

What did you get? What should I do?

We may have a preferred service we use (say MSN)

ePortfolio


Assessment Service

Learner Reflections



IAG planning Service

LearningPlans

Learner Goals

1.

2.

3.

4.

6.

7.

5.


7. Pathway Info is called.

6. An IAG planning service allows me to choose which of my reflections to make available to my advisor.

ePortfolio


Assessment Service

Learner Reflections

Dialogues



IAG planning Service8.

LearningPlans

Learner Goals

1.

2.

3.

4.

6.

7.

5.

ePortfolio Identifying gaps8. My dialogue with my advisor is recorded

(The learner may well be accessing other advice from other sources: - how does this get into the ePortfolio?)

ePortfolio


Assessment Service

Learner Reflections

Dialogues




LearningPlans

Learner Goals

1.

2.

3.

4.

6.

7.

5.

ePortfolio Initial Reference Model8. My dialogue with my advisor is recorded

(The learner may well be accessing other advice from other sources)

9. I negotiate a formal learning plan with my advisor

ePortfolio


Assessment Service

Learner Reflections

Dialogues




LearningPlans

9.

Learner Goals

1.

2.

3.

4.

6.

7.

5.

10.

UCAS APPLY

ePortfolio Initial Reference Model9. I negotiate a formal learning plan with my advisor.

10. I carry through the plan and apply to HE

• One of the actions in the plan is to develop a Personal Statement.

• The ePortfolio Reference Model will demonstrate a set of web services within the application to HE process.

• The web services help the applicant draw on their ePortfolio to complete the Personal Statement (and a referee to add comments).

Drilling down to web services

Drilling down to web services

How could an HEI implement

the model?

Student Personal ePortfolio

Applicant

Course Entry Profile

Presentational ePortfolio

Course entry requirement


Assertion Activity Evidence

Assertion Activity

• The applicant selects a course

• WS1 Course entry requirements populate a blank template

• WS 2 helps the applicant draw down material from the eP

• WS 3 helps the applicant link to evidence in the eP


Presentational eP: Personal Statement


Reference

Applicant





Assertion

Testimonial

Activity Evidence

Evaluation

Referee

Assertion Activity

• WS 4 allows a referee to add comments


Overview of the Summative Process


Reference

Applicant





Assertion

Testimonial

Activity Evidence

Admissions OfficerEvaluation

RefereeQualifications

MOSAIC data

School data

Assertion Activity

Message1

WS 1WS 2

WS 3

WS 4

• Other web services will be specified to repurpose the information so that an admissions officer can make effective use of richer information at no extra cost in terms of staff time

Formative re-use for Personal Development

• The Learner has undertaken a diagnostic exercise to map himself to an HE course.

• The same web services can be used formatively for trial applications which the advisor assesses.


Formative Assessment

Learner





Assertion

Testimonial

Activity Evidence

Evaluation

Advisor

Assertion Activity

A

What are the web services within an Advice Service helping a new student

understand feedback from the summative assessment?


New Student





Assertion Activity Evidence

Admissions Officer

University Advisor

Qualifications

Assertion Activity

Review

Look up

Assessed 10/10

Feedback

WS 1

Dialogue

Assessed 3/10

A

Thin ePortfolio

ePortfolio


Learner Reflections

Dialogues

LearningPlans

Learner Goals

Assessment Service



IAG planning Service

7.

10.

Enrolment Service

8.

9.

1.

2.

3.

4.

College Repository

University Repository

Exam Board Repository

(UK LeaP + XCRI + QTI = enterprise)

Induction to HE • In the application process the Personal

Statement is used summatively to make a decision

• In colleges the Personal Statement can be used diagnostically or formatively by the student and their advisor, as we will show

• It could also be used for formatively for induction to HE.

A

college e-portfolio and he admissions peter rees jones

Documents

e9 slide

estrategy slide

admissions services

key outcome slide

admissions staff

education system

admissions process

course information