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Portfolio Development

The Portfolio Development Guide

We're sporting our portfolios these days! Whether you're a new student, beginning to assemble the initial sections of your University Portfolio, or a junior preparing to address the competency requirements, we hope you'll find this online version of our Portfolio Development Guide useful.

INTRODUCTION

The term "Portfolio" at Alaska Pacific University refers both to an ongoing process of assessment and documentation and to the product of that process at different stages. For greater precision in talking about portfolios at APU, we will refer to it in connection to differing purposes.

A portfolio is a means of presenting yourself and your work in a succinct and effective way. The portfolio you begin at APU is likely to evolve into a professional presentation that you will continue to update and use throughout your working years. It is likely that you will change jobs, even professions, numerous times in the years ahead. The portfolio will be an invaluable aid in introducing you to new situations and in helping you to advance in your career.

In addition to introducing you to the portfolio as a lifelong, ongoing project, the University has a more immediate purpose for requiring one: it provides a formal exercise in self-evaluation and allows you to demonstrate certain university-designated competencies. It also places responsibility on you to set forth academic and personal goals and to develop a plan for achieving them. Your thoughtful articulation of past achievements and future goals will aid your faculty advisor in assisting you to reach these goals.

APU hasn’t found a ready-made formula for the perfect portfolio. We haven't devised one either. However, we have surveyed practices observed elsewhere, considered our goals at APU and settled on a recommended skeletal format. Within these guidelines you are free to present yourself in whatever ways you think likely to be effective. Remember that you must envision a prospective reader. Initially your audience includes university advisors. It will be easier for them to assess your work if it follows an outline they expect. As your audience changes over time, you will want to make appropriate adjustments.

Questions: contact Sharon Sibbald, Director of Writing or your advisor.