Enhancing Higher Education Profiles through e-Portfolio Services
This feasibility study explores the application of web services for developing personal profiles essential for higher education (HE) admissions. It outlines a systematic approach where users engage with a Profiling Service during Information, Advice, and Guidance (IAG) sessions to construct structured personal statements. The web services facilitate formative and summative assessments, enabling continuous improvement of applicant profiles before formal submission. The study highlights interactive iterations that allow for tailored feedback and an outline of integrated services for a centralized admissions process.
Enhancing Higher Education Profiles through e-Portfolio Services
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e-Portfolio Reference Model Peter Rees Jones JISC-CETIS e-Portfolio Feasibility Study Dr Angela Smallwood & Sandra Kingston Centre for International e-Portfolio Development, University of Nottingham V2 2006 06 09 PRJ
Standard Pattern: Apply to HE Use Case A set of 4 web services help me develop a profile of myself in terms of the course entry profile setting out the requirements for a particular course at a particular HEI. I discuss the profile with my advisor. (IAG stands for Information, Advice and Guidance. Web Service 4 permits formative assessment for IAG or summative assessment for a formal reference)
Standard Pattern: Apply to HE Use Case WS 1 calls the entry profile into a blank structured personal statement
Standard Pattern: Apply to HE Use Case WS 1 calls the entry profile into a blank structured personal statement WS 2 helps me draw on my e-P to create a profile
Standard Pattern: Apply to HE Use Case WS 1 calls the entry profile into a blank structured personal statement WS 2 helps me draw on my e-P to create a profile WS 3 helps link assertions and activities to evidence in my eP
Standard Pattern: Apply to HE Use Case WS 4 allows my adviser to formatively assess the statement AND ALSO allows my referee to make a summative assessment of the statement. This pattern has a strong association with diagnostic, formative & summative assessment
First iteration: context for the use case This Profiling Service enables me to develop a profile of myself in terms of the profile of an opportunity, such as an HE course or a job. Typically the trigger for the initial use case is an Information Advice and Guidance (IAG) session with an advisor, prompting the potential applicant to use a Discovery Service: Having identified some possibilities I use the Profiling Service. The loop may be completed many times until I wish to make a formal application
2nd iteration: feedback & induction There is an outline spec of web services for a centralised admissions process that can produce feedback. I am given a commented version of the assessed statement. I use WS 1-4 to re-factor the statement & meet my HE advisor for the 1st time. I draw up an action plan for my HE use of e-Portfolio.
Third iteration Unsuccessful applicants receive the same feedback that they review before meeting their advisor.
Locating e-Portfolio • Here, an e-Portfolio engine provides and receives information from a service. • The services do not have to be part of the same system as the e-Portfolio
Locating e-Portfolio • For example, the Discovery Service in this instance is not directly linked to the e-Portfolio. • Services and repositories can be indirectly related to e-Portfolio.
Thin e-Portfolio for 14 – 19 Specialised Diplomas Neither the services consuming and producing information nor the repositories storing that information need to be contained within an e-Portfolio system.