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
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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?