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Engaging with ePortfolios: Teaching Social Work Competencies through a Program-wide Curriculum

2018· article· en· W2913350418 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Alice Schmidt Hanbidge, Colleen McMillan, Kyle Scholz

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicReflective Practices in Education
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPracticumCapstoneCurriculumCompetence (human resources)PedagogyComputer scienceExperiential learningPsychologyMathematics educationKnowledge managementMedical education

Abstract

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The potential of ePortfolios is derived from a learner’s ability to synthesize learning experiences to better understand how seemingly disparate modalities are connected (Alvarez & Moxley, 2004; Chen, 2009). This is best accomplished through a program-wide implementation of ePortfolios, including providing time for self-directed learning opportunities to become accustomed to the self-reflective practice and online technology. Nonetheless, it remains challenging for program-wide ePortfolios to exist effectively due to the commitment and resources required (Posey, Plack, Synder, Dinneen, Feuer, & Wiss, 2015; Sidell, 2003). Our study examines one approach to alleviate logistical and pedagogical issues that emerge when considering program-wide implementations of an ePortfolio, namely, thorough integration of the ePortfolio within the program. We examine the efficacy of an ePortfolio assignment situated within the online Master of Social Work program at Renison University College that was informed by Bernstein’s learning theory. As part of the program capstone, the ePortfolio is intended to be a synthesizing and culminating learning experience, wherein learners develop their professional self. It is a scholarly and creative collection of diverse artefacts accumulated through course work, a field practicum, and practical experiences. We distill the features and processes that make this ePortfolio assignment unique. Core professional social work competencies are embedded within the ePortfolio and learners are expected to continually reflect on their learning experiences and explicitly connect them to the competencies. Such evidence of learning helps students demonstrate their competence to future employers, and allows for program evaluation to assess student proficiency. Learner-reported survey data collected through focus groups and reviewer surveys are analyzed using a thematic analysis on the effectiveness of the ePortfolio for future careers, as well as the ePortfolio’s ability to encourage the intended outcome of synthesizing all aspects of the capstone experience. Multiple pedagogical benefits exist for incorporating an ePortfolio into a professional program. Le potentiel des ePortfolios dérive de l’aptitude d’un apprenant à synthétiser ses expériences d’apprentissage afin de mieux comprendre comment des modalités qui semblent disparates sont connectées (Alvarez & Moxley, 2004; Chen, 2009). Le meilleur moyen d’y parvenir est de faire appel à la mise en oeuvre d’un ePortfolio à l’échelle des programmes, y compris le fait de consacrer du temps pour des occasions d’apprentissage auto-dirigées afin de s’habituer à la pratique d’auto-réflexion et à la technologie en ligne. Toutefois, l’existence efficace des ePortfolios à l’échelle des programmes reste difficile à cause des obligations et des ressources qui sont nécessaires (Posey, Plack, Synder, Dinneen, Feuer & Wiss, 2015; Sidell, 2003). Notre étude examine une approche qui permet de réduire les problèmes logistiques et pédagogiques qui surviennent lorsqu’on examine la mise en oeuvre des ePortoflio à l’échelle des programmes, plus précisément lors de l’intégration des ePortfolios au sein des programmes. Nous examinons l’efficacité d’un ePortfolio qui existe au sein du programme de maîtrise en travail social offert en ligne à l’Université Collège Renison, basé sur la théorie d’apprentissage de Bernstein. En tant qu’élément fondamental du programme, le ePortfolio est censé constituer une expérience d’apprentissage culminante de synthèse qui permet aux étudiants de développer leur moi professionnel. Il s’agit d’un recueil de travaux savants et créatifs divers accumulés par le biais du travail de cours, des stages effectués sur le terrain et des expériences pratiques. Nous distillons les caractéristiques et les processus qui rendent unique cette tâche de préparation d’un ePortfolio. Les compétences professionnelles de base en travail social sont incorporées au sein du ePortfolio et les apprenants sont censés réfléchir continuellement à leurs expériences d’apprentissage et connecter explicitement celles-ci à leurs compétences. Une telle preuve d’apprentissage aide les étudiants à démontrer leurs compétences à de futurs employeurs et fait en sorte que leur réussite peut être évaluée grâce à l’évaluation du programme. Les données recueillies par le biais d’un sondage auto-rapporté par les étudiants et par le biais de groupes de discussion, ainsi que les sondages effectués par des examinateurs, ont été examinés grâce à une analyse thématique traitant de l’efficacité du ePortfolio sur les carrières futures. L’aptitude du ePortfolio à encourager les résultats escomptés, c’est-à-dire à synthétiser tous les aspects de l’expérience fondamentale, a été examinée. Il existe de nombreux avantages pédagogiques pour incorporer un ePortfolio dans un programme professionnel.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.019
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.012
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.743
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0190.012
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0410.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.054
GPT teacher head0.391
Teacher spread0.337 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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