Principal Investigators: Marquita Walker, Interim Chair and Associate Professor, Labor Studies, School of Social Work
Project Title: Using e-Portfolios as a College to Career Tool
Funding Level: $5000
Abstract: This proposal seeks funding to develop a showcase e-Portfolio into the Department of Labor Studies’ (DLS) core course, L199: Portfolio Development Workshop. The e-Portfolio will initially be embedded in four DLS core courses as a platform on which students can establish a portable digital skills and abilities showcase to demonstrate their best work to potential employers leveraging their best efforts for successful workforce entry or additional pathways into academia. The inclusion of the e-portfolio in four core courses would begin in fall, 2023 and could impact 150 students per semester; additional core courses would include the e-Portfolio in subsequent years. This e-Portfolio will become a digital archive and achievement repository, a springboard for e-portfolio inclusion into DLS courses for all students, a tool for our majors’ career readiness, and an assessment tool. Direct measures of student learning outcomes (SLO) will be measured by a PI/faculty designed rubric gauging artifacts produced for the e-Portfolio and indirect measures are assessed via end of semester questionnaires. Sustainability of the platform rests in adding the e-Portfolio into additional core DLS courses, Prior Learning Assessments (PLAs) and future internships. E-Portfolio inclusion serves DLS SLOs which prepare students for future careers and lifelong learning, two National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) career readiness competencies: self-development and equity and inclusion, and Indiana University Profiles of Learning for Undergraduate Success (PLUS) 1) Communicator and 2) Innovator. Data gleaned through analysis of assessments will be disseminated through conferences, the Center for Teaching and Learning CEG symposium, and potential publications.
