• Getting Started
• Portfolio Process Goals
• The Process
• Introductory Documentation
• Junior Year Review
• The Competencies
• Criteria for Evaluating
  Skills and Understandings
• Demonstration Methods
• Challenging Courses for
  Credit (DEL FOLDER)

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  • B: Exercise in Goal
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  • C: Major Competencies
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  • D: DEL Folder Assessment
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Portfolio Development

Getting Started

Ordinarily, you will begin to assemble the portfolio as a new student in GS132: Orientation to Active Learning. Your instructor will walk you through the steps described in this section and will offer suggestions as you draft and rewrite these portions.

Some of you who have transferred to APU as upper division students may have been excused from Orientation to Active Learning. If you are an education major you will work on the portfolio in ED212/214: Exploring the Learning Community Environment, following the Education Department’s guidelines. All other majors may choose to get started on their own, following the guidelines set out in this handbook.

If you prefer to work with an instructor, you may enroll for one or more modules of a class in Portfolio Development, GS205, 206, or 207. The first of these one-credit modules, each three weeks long and scheduled consecutively during the session, is Portfolio Development: Initial Documentation. In this class the instructor reviews the process, explains what the expectations are, and assists you in developing the first sections of the portfolio. The second module, Addressing the Competencies, is designed to assist students in preparing their materials for the junior year review by the department. The third module, Documented Experiential Learning (the DEL Folder), is designed to help students who have extensive work histories to prepare to challenge specific courses at APU for credit.

The Portfolio instructor assigns a credit/no-credit grade for each module, based on the completion of the relevant portfolio section but does not grade the portfolio itself. Your major advisor and committee will provide a written assessment of the portfolio.