An overview of use

Exemplar  4

Psychology (Course Level)

 

Institution: University of Wolverhampton

 

Psychology (course level) Eportfolio is in place across all levels of the undergraduate Psychology course. The examples below show where in the modular curriculum eportfolio is embedded. The overall numbers of students using eportfolio in Psychology are as follows:

 

L4 – 160

L5 – 120

L6 – 150

 

The overarching aims of using e-portfolio across the Psychology course is to support students so they are better able to:

• Develop skills
• Identify areas for development
• Break down targets
• Record achievements
• Engage in the discursive nature of blogs with peers an tutors
• Have a systematic way of recording meetings
• Build on previous use of eportfolio in preceding levels

 

Eportfolio context: what level, modules, how are they linked? how many staff and students involved?

 

Level 4 example 1:Themes and Practice (Year Long module).  Students work in groups on tutorials, and tutor led sessions, produce work and share in groups on Pebble for comment.  160 level 4 students and 25 academic staff.

 

Date started:

Oct 2010

 

Reason for implementation:

As part of the university wide Learning Works project where the institution moved from a 15 to 20 credit modular framework. All courses were re-validated and this gave an opportunity to look at Blended Learning at course level.

 

Purpose: what process(es) is it supporting?

Assessment and to support working in groups

 

Learning process involved: what do the students have to do?  

Critical Reading and reflection through the use of a number of individual and group blogs

 

Eportfolio context: what level, modules, how are they linked? how many staff and students involved?

 

Level 4 module example 2: Historical and Conceptual Themes in Psychology (Sem 1). All L4 students, 1 member of academic staff (WN)

 

Date started:

October 2010

 

Reason for implementation:

As part of the university wide Learning Works project where the institution moved from a 15 to 20 credit modular framework. All courses were re-validated and this gave an opportunity to look at Blended Learning at course level.

 

Purpose: what process(es) is it supporting?

Assessment, PDP - key skills of working in groups and presentation skills.

 

Learning process involved: what do the students have to do?

Work in a group, research a key figure in psychology, appraise their own presentation skills and present. Students work in a group to produce a presentation.  Through group blogs (around 5 students in each group) they create a group contract, note minutes, create an action plan.  They then film their presentation and are given guidelines on how to critically appraise it with a view to improving for the summative assessment.  They contribute their appraisal to the group blog and finally write up a group assessment of how they performed and how they worked as a group

 

Key staff involved:

Wendy Nicholls

 

Eportfolio context: what level, modules, how are they linked? how many staff and students involved?

 

Level 5 module example:

Theoretical and Applied Social Psychology All L4 students, all L5 PT or CH students (20), 2 members academic staff 

 

Date started:

October 2010

 

Reason for implementation:

As part of the university wide Learning Works project where the institution moved from a 15 to 20 credit modular framework. All courses were re-validated and this gave an opportunity to look at Blended Learning at course level.

 

Purpose: what process(es) is it supporting?

Patchwork Text assessment

 

Learning process involved: what do the students have to do?  

Appraise real world applications of social psychology

 

Key staff involved:

Wendy Nicholls and Caroline Wesson

 

Screenshot example here