Presentation given at the ePortfolio 2009 conference, City University

1. E-portfolio values: Why are personal values important in the world of portfolios? Simon Grant JISC Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards (CETIS) ePortfolio 2009, City University, London 2009-06-24

3. E-portfolios and values

4. Understanding the different aspects of personal values

5. E-portfolios for different aspects of values

8. what you tend to prioritise (e.g. in terms of time, money)

9. how you tend to treat people

14. how to do things (explicit “know-how”)

18. thread this needle

19. read this text

21. Traditional practical tests, face-to-face evaluation

22. BUT explicit knowledge and basic capability still do not account for on-the-job effectiveness

23. What is missing to make up competence?

25. range of basic capabilities

27. Competence = knowledge + capability + values

30. Can you keep up a suitable activity rate for 90 minutes?

32. Do you choose well between shooting at goal or playing on?

33. Do you make good choices of where to move to in good time?

34. Do you tackle opponents fairly?

38. Do you choose well between speaking and listening?

39. Do you balance tact with clarity effectively?

40. Do your actions result in successful conclusions?

42. The knowledge and basic capabilities are not so hard to assess in other ways, but evidencing quality of choice in real contexts is harder

43. Portfolios can bring together evidence for quality of choice, from results and/or expert witnesses

44. Thus portfolios can evidence competence, through evidencing quality of choice, or personal values

46. Please feel free to take up the topics later...

49. or expert assessment on the job

55. Values are key in many views of personal development

61. public actions private words/ideas Four aspects of personal values professed espoused occurrent effective social norms, and what you say you would choose what you'd choose to or for yourself (maybe secretly?) what you actually choose, from what occurs just to you in terms of effects, choices you are responsible for

62. public actions private words/ideas In cycles, perhaps like Kolb's professed espoused occurrent effective concrete experience reflective observation abstract conceptualisation active experimentation

63. public actions private words/ideas Presentation and reflection professed espoused occurrent effective conflict or harmony evident publicly portfolios (presentations) are do you agree with norms of behaviour? do the wrong things occur to you? essential reflection can you trace through cause and effect?

66. already done with approaches like Kolb's

68. Thus portfolio tools and practice can become “ engines of trust ” (Serge Ravet & Maureen Layte)

70. They may not have authentic espoused values yet

73. to broaden the range of choices that occur to them

74. to deepen their understanding of cause and effect

79. Personal development as mechanism for realignment

80. Engines of trust - yes

81. But only as the individual is ready!

83. and in Robert Kegan (1995) “In Over Our Heads”