Prof. Sarah Todd
For the past two years, Master’s of Social Work students have used cuPortfolio across the degree program to reflect on their learning, make connections across courses, and showcase achievement of the program’s learning outcomes. As an early adopter of the tool herself, Prof. Sarah Todd was quick to see how cuPortfolio could be used to gather evidence of learning that would meet institutional and professional accreditation assessment expectations.
“A program-level cuPortfolio provides us with an opportunity to build a student-centred tool for program assessment,” said Prof. Todd. “Students find the building of e-portfolios useful for reflecting upon and integrating what they have learned throughout their studies, which in turn helps them in job interviews. When the tool has value for them, it means the quality of the content is vastly improved and it provides us with rich data for assessing our program.”
To find out more about using cuPortfolio as a program assessment tool, contact the Office of the Vice-Provost.
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