Portfolio Development and the Assessment of Prior Learning: Perspectives, Models, and Practices (Paperback)

1. Introduction; 2. Approaches to Portfolio Development; 3. Resources for Portfolio Development; 4. Case Studies in Portfolio Development; 5. The Offspring of Doing: Performance Assessment at Alverno College by James Roth, Georgine Loacker, Bernardin Deutsch, Suzann Gardner, and Barbara Nevers; 6. All of Who We Are: Foundations of Learning at the School for New Learning, DePaul University, by Marixsa Alicea, Deborah Holton, and Derise Tolliver; 7. Love Talk: Educational Planning at Empire State College by Lee Herman; 8. I Am a Writer: Writing from Life at the Evergreen State College by Kate Crowe; 9. The Wholeness of Life: A Native North American Approach to Portfolio Development at First Nations Technical Institute by Diane Hill; 10. Cracking the Code: The Assessment of Prior Experiential Learning at London Metropolitan University by Helen Peters, Helen Pokorny and Linda Johnson; 11. Building on the Past, Moving toward the Future: Prior Learning Assessment in a Changing Institution at Metropolitan State University by Susan T. Rydell; 12. Learning from our Experience: Portfolio Development at Sinclair Community College by Carolyn M. Mann; 13. Delineations on the Web: Computer-Mediated Portfolio Development at the University of Maryland-University College by Theresa A. Hoffmann; 14. Corporatising Knowledge: Work-Based Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney, by Nicky Solomon and Julie Gustavs; 15. After Apartheid: The Recognition of Prior Learning at the College of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Ruksana Osman; 16. The Components of Learning: Statewide Assessment of Prior Learning at The Vermont State Colleges by Judith Fitch; Notes on Contributors.