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Weekly portfolio
In this course you are required to complete a weekly portfolio. A portfolio provides evidence of previous experience and
presents a dynamic record of your growth and professional learning over the duration of this course. Your portfolio provides
an account of your learning based on your prior and current learnings and your critical reflection.
Being able to tell much more about you than exam results;
As a means of reflecting your development through the course;
To reflect your attitude and values as well as your skills and knowledge.
Timmins states that A portfolio is a cohesive account of work based learning that contains relevant evidence from practice
and critical reflection on this evidence. Its primary purpose is to display achievement of professional competence or learning
outcomes and knowledge development (Timmins 2008: p. 115).
Youll find much more information about the use and application of portfolios on the Internet. However, it will require you to
take some time to think through how you are going to complete the portfolio on a weekly basis. It is very easy to trivialise
the portfolio and write nearly the same thing each week. But that wont gain you many marks. Instead you should try to
focus on the topic and learning outcome for the week and your reflections regarding them.
Task
Your task is to write a weekly portfolio reflecting upon your learnings from the prior week. In your portfolio you will identify:
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Future directions
In the future you should expect that portfolios will be used increasingly at the academic post graduate level. Eventually they
may even replace exams. Therefore there are a number of things to note for the future:
1. You will be required to complete more portfolios in other courses as you progress in your academic career;
2. As portfolios begin to replace exams you will need to make your portfolio comprehensive and deeply reflective to gain
a good grade;
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3. You may find that other course assessments, such as presentations, will be aligned with the content of your portfolio
submissions as a means of validating your knowledge.
Race P. (2010) A Practical Guide to Assessment, Learning and Teaching. Abingdon, England: Routledge.
Timmins F. (2008) Making Sense of Portfolios: An Introduction to Portfolio use for Nursing Students. Glasgow, Scotland:
McGraw-Hill Education.
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Topic and Your personal learning Learnings from your Supporting documentation
reading outcomes from this course. experience. including your prior
samples. learnings.
Portfolio Reflection
You can write anything here that assists you to reflect upon your learning journey using each weeks portfolio as evidence of
the learnings that have occurred.
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