How can studentprofile Personal Development Planning support students workbased learning Pauline Rid

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How can studentprofile (Personal Development
Planning)support students work-based
learning?Pauline Ridley Centre for Learning
Teaching

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Reminder of National Context

• HE Progress Files to be introduced by 2005-6
• Post-Dearing, CVCPUUK/QAA/SCoP 2000 policy
  statement
• Progress File incorporates two elements
• a transcript
• a comprehensive and verifiable institutional
  record of the individual students learning and
  achievement
• a personal record
• HEIs should provide structured and supported
  processes to develop the capacity of individuals
  to reflect upon their own learning and
  achievement, and to plan for their own personal
  educational and career development. The term
  Personal Development Planning (PDP) is used to
  denote this process.

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Personal Development Planning (PDP)

• Umbrella term - usually includes
• Learning to learn/study skills, other
  transferable skills
• Skills audit or self-evaluation early in course
• Action planning and reflection
• Regular progress reviews/tutorial system
• Career/ professional development planning
• More simply - key PDP cycle for students
• Where am I now? (Self evaluation and review)
• Where do I want to be? (Goal Setting)
• How will I get there? (Action Planning)
• How will I know when Ive arrived? (Criteria for
  success)

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Whats happening at Brighton?

• Working group in 2003 found
• PDP elements present in all courses, and mapped
  through Career Planning Agreements, but not
  always clear to students
• Diverse systems and approaches in place, some
  linked to professional /accreditation
  requirements
• Uneven implementation of Tutoring Policy
• Decision to
• Build on, rather than replace, existing processes
• Improve training and support for personal tutors
  and liaison tutors updated Personal Tutoring
  Policy development of Guide for Personal Tutors
• Make PDP more explicit for students through
  creation of a University-wide identity
• Studentprofile pilot 2004-5 details at
• http//staffcentral.brighton.ac.uk/clt/resource
  s/PDP.htm

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The studentprofile folder

• Physical folder online resources (in course
  area of studentcentral)
• Inserts/file dividers (corresponding to
  studentcentral areas) advice on how each
  section might be used
• Common framework course-specific resources
  but needs to be owned by individual student

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Representing learning

• Implicit in the conception of the progress file
  is the notion that, while universities and
  colleges can take primary responsibility for the
  assessment and representation of disciplinary
  learning and achievement,
• learners themselves must take primary
  responsibility for evidencing and representing
  their learning and achievement in, and for, the
  transdisciplinary world.
• emphasis added
• Jackson Ward, A fresh perspective on
  progress filesa way of representing complex
  learning and achievement in higher education
  Assessment Evaluation in Higher Education Vol.
  29, No. 4, August 2004

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Implementation and assessment

• Different implementation models and the
  beliefs and purposes that underlie them will
  foster different types of assessment regimes and
  create different situations for the validation of
  student claims for learning made through PDP-type
  processes. Jackson Ward 2004
• Embedded in the curriculum
• i) PDP processes systematic and integral to way
  of learning eg negotiated work-based learning.
  May be main focus of assessment or assessed
  alongside academic learning
• ii) not systematic, deployed in various ways
  across curriculum
• connected within an overall framework/portfolio
  which may or may not be assessed
• PDP and other types of process-based learning not
  connected. Assessment ( if it exists) tuned to
  each context
• Discrete
• located in discrete curriculum units or
  extra-curricular award schemes which have their
  own assessment regime

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Relevance to work-based learning?

• Studentprofile/PDP can
• connect personal, academic and professional
  domains - a single place to keep records,
  feedback, future plans and informal thoughts
  about learning and work
• help students present themselves more effectively
  when seeking placements, applying for jobs or
  starting work
• build habits of regular self-appraisal, planning
  and reflection on what has been learned from each
  experience (sample handouts)