Amy Cicchino & Brandi Gilbert: Portfolios as high-impact practices

Associate Prof Dr Amy Cicchino, the Director of the Writing Center at the University of Central Florida and Brandi Gilbert, MPH, the Director of the Life-Health Sciences Internship Program at Indiana University Indianapolis talk about high-impact practices and how portfolios fit in.

Resources

• Assessment Institute
• HIPs in the States
• AAC&U list of high-impact practices
• AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force
• AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principles
• Kuh, G.D, O’Donnell, K., & Reed, S. (2013). Ensuring quality and taking high-impact practices to scale. American Association of Colleges and Universities.
• Watson, C. E., Kuh, G. D., Rhodes, T. L., Penny Light, T., & Chen, H. L. (2016). Editorial: ePortfolios – The eleventh High Impact Practice. International Journal of ePortfolio, 6(2), 65–69.
• Kinzie, J., Silberstein, S., McCormick, A.C., Gonyea, R. M., & Dugan, B. (2021). Centering racially minoritized student voices in high-impact practices. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 53(4), 6–14
• IU Indianapolis ePortfolio Studio
• IU Indianapolis student ePortfolio showcase
• Elements of HIPs:
  • Performance expectations set at appropriately high levels
  • Significant investment of concentrated effort by students over an extended period
  • Interactions with faculty and peers about substantive matters
  • Experiences with diversity, wherein students are exposed to and must contend with people and circumstances that differ from those with which students are familiar
  • Frequent, timely, and constructive feedback
  • Opportunities to discover relevance of learning through real-world applications
  • Public demonstration of competence
  • Periodic, structured opportunities to reflect and integrate learning
  • Making a difference for others
  • Agency and accomplishment

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