Portfolios

							                    Sally Fincher
      hci Disciplinary Commons
First Meeting: 5th October 2007




              Portfolios
What is the genre?


•    Artists
•    Models




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From the container …

          •   Political & monetary portfolios




         BRIEF OF SURVEY OF BRITAIN’S WARTIME
       ECONOMIC ORGANISATION FORWARDED BY NOTE BY
      HONORABLE ARTHUR GREENWOOD, MINISTER WITHOUT
                       PORTFOLIO,
                    29 AUGUST 1940,




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From the container …

          •   Political & monetary portfolios




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What do they have in common?

          •   The purposeful selection of artefacts to achieve
              an end
          •   Selection is not random: you choose the
              contents to reflect the parts that are most
              important to you (and/or your theme)
          •   What end? This requires consideration of
              audience and purpose
          •   Our Commons Portfolios may be quite different
              from a portfolio you would compile for
              promotion – different audience, different
              purpose

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The Lab Report               The Journal Paper

          •   Title
                             •   Title page
          •   Hypothesis
                             •   Abstract
          •   Materials
                             •   Introduction
          •   Procedure
                             •   Materials and Methods
          •   Data
                             •   Results
          •   Calculations
                             •   Discussion
          •   Results
                             •   Literature Cited
          •   Conclusions



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The power of form

          •   Allows comparability
          •   Allows for different sorts of research, with
              different emphases
          •   Content is guaranteed by peer review
          •   The Journal paper is to research as …




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… the Portfolio is to teaching ?


• Context              • Allows comparability
                       • Allows for different sorts of
     (or environment or place and space)


• Content                practice, with different

• Instructional Design • Content guaranteed by
                         emphases

• Delivery               the nature of the evidence
• Assessment             (and how it is structured)
                         and peer review
• Evaluation

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The Nature & Structure of Portfolio Content

                      Artefact – Commentary

                       Evidence – Analysis

                           What – Why


          •   Paired elements
          •   Nothing admissible without an evidential
              artefact
          •   Necessity of capture


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The Portfolio?

           •   Common headings … but how do they fit
               together?
           “I would propose four different formats and
              themes that might be useful frameworks for our
              course investigations and documentation: the
              course as anatomical structure; the natural
              history of a course; the ecology of courses; and
              courses as investigations.”



           Lee Shulman, "Course Anatomy: The Dissection and Analysis of Knowledge Through
                                Teaching", in The Course Portfolio, Hutchins, Pat (ed.), 1999.


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The Portfolio?
           Anatomy
           •   parts, structure, part-part relations, aggregations of parts,
               function of parts and aggregates.
           Natural History
           •   developmental trajectory; narrative, journey, itinerary,
               coherence.
           Ecology
           •   programmatic context; it's “fit” within the scheme of
               things.
           Investigation
           •   course as series of experiments to test learning
               conjectures. What do you want to understand about your
               students?
                                                 Summarized list by Josh Tenenberg
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Developing Reflective Practice

           The Course Portfolio can be thought of as
             a document that provides different levels
             of access to different audiences:
           • Private
           • Protected
           • Public


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Portfolio: Levels of Access

           • Private: The Individual Teacher -               just
             you
               This material is for your eyes only. A diary space for
                self-disclosure and reflection.

           • Protected: The Group of Peers - a few
             friends
               This is material that you share with your peers. For
                our purposes, we can certainly consider one another
                as peers, though you might want to consider
                colleagues in your department or in the broader
                discipline as part of this group as well. Sharing here
                is relatively safe and contained, and will be where
                we’ll draw most of our peer reviews from.

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Portfolio: Levels of Access

           • Public:isThematerial that we will post on the Internet,
               This the
                          Wide Wide World
                  for all eyes to see, the final product that is often
                  referred to as The Course Portfolio. We’ll want to
                  ensure that there are no gaffes or errors, and, as a
                  result of this being accessed by a wider audience,
                  we might want to include more context and
                  navigational aids




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