Portfolio Development and the Assessment of Prior Learning Perspectives, Models, and Practices

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