ERIC Number: EJ1080775
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
Pages: 8
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Are You a Leader? How We Learned to Stop Asking
Bacal, Jessica; Ly, Minh; Walters, Jennifer L.; Einbinder, Allyson
Theory Into Practice, v54 n4 p309-316 2015
Smith College initiated an ePortfolio pilot project to guide students in documenting key learning experiences and in linking those experiences to Smith's institutional mission of "developing leaders for society's challenges" (Smith College, 2011). Twenty-one college students volunteered to participate in the pilot, based on the integrative knowledge portfolio process and informed by research in the fields of narrative psychology, integrative learning theory and ePortfolio theory. This article discusses the process of guiding students in integrative learning through the development of ePortfolios and through a curriculum, which engaged them in understanding and articulating their own learning, as well as in connecting it to the college mission.
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Portfolio Assessment, Electronic Publishing, Institutional Mission, Pilot Projects, College Students, Integrated Activities, Integrated Curriculum, Leadership Training, Leadership, Educational Theories, Concept Teaching, Concept Mapping, Student Reaction, Pretests Posttests
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Massachusetts
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