Admitting students and recruiting employees Analogous uses of ePortfolios

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Admitting students and recruiting employees
Analogous uses of
e-Portfolios?

• Dr Angela Smallwood
• Director, PADSHE
• University of Nottingham

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Future of HE admissions

• UCAS 100 web-based from 2006
• Schwartz recommendations (late 2004) 5
  principles proposed
• Transparency
• Reliability and validity
• Selection for merit, potential and diversity
• The minimising of barriers
• Professionalism

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Criteria for aptitude and potential

• Already implicit in HE admissions processes
• Selecting and discriminating
• Recruiting and matching
• Existing vehicle for explicitness and
  transparency UCAS course entry profile

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Common tools?

• Employment competencies, e.g.
• Understanding data collection and analysis
• Communication
• Team working
• Personal effectiveness
• Delivering results

• UCAS entry profile attributes, e.g.
• Prior knowledge/interest
• Communication
• Self-directed study research skills
• Group/team working
• IT skills

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Employers takes on the Schwartz requirements?

• Structuring data fields to
• Support applicants in presenting appropriate
  material
• Aid early sifts
• Quality assuring decision-making
• Facilitating the provision of feedback to
  candidates

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Questions for the day

• How do employers identify and communicate what
  they mean by potential?
• How do they provide for applicants to demonstrate
  potential through the application process?
• What can HE admissions learn from this?
• How far apart are we?