Portfolio Assessment Two details and marking criteria

Professional Portfolio Assessment Part Two

What’s this assessment all about? 

Part Two of your professional portfolio submission for NCL3007 is an opportunity for you to present evidence of your personal development through the module and through the professional experience/placement you have undertaken by discussing your progress towards the personal development goals you have set. It is also an opportunity to develop an action plan for your future career development after graduation, using knowledge and techniques learned through the module.

Why are you assessing me in this way?

Compiling a portfolio including examples and evidence of your progress, personal development, and achievements will benefit your future career and professional development, it will also provide you with a valuable resource to revisit when applying for future opportunities, completing application forms and preparing for interviews and assessment centres. Spending time developing a forward-looking plan will help you to consider your career beyond graduation and how you can take actions to develop this.

Part Two of the Portfolio is based on personal reflection on your progress and presenting evidence of this, as well as action planning for your next steps. The formats available for presentation of this assessment encourage you to engage with different ways of articulating and presenting examples of what you have achieved whilst using technology effectively and creatively.

How should I present Part Two of the Portfolio?

You can choose between two formats:

a. An voiceover PowerPoint presentation. The presentation should include no more than 15 slides with a pre-recorded voiceover to accompany this which is no longer than ten minutes long. You can include images, hyperlinks and/or screenshots and may also choose to embed short video clips (the length of these should be included in the overall ten minutes duration). b. A video of no longer than ten minutes. This can be recorded and edited using a video camera or video functionality of a computer, smartphone or tablet. The majority of the video should be narrated by you but you can choose how you want to present evidence to meet the criteria, this could include images, interviews with others, etc.

How will Part Two of the Portfolio be marked? 

The criteria overleaf identify what the marker will be looking for when assessing Part Two of your portfolio, with some examples of what to refer to to address these. Further detail will be covered in the teaching sessions and learning resources related to each topic.  

As this is a reflective portfolio based on your planned personal development, you are expected to critically analyse and evaluate what you say as well as describing it – that is to explain why you have chosen the areas you are focusing on rather than others that you considered, and to synthesise, or make meaningful links between, aspects of your personal development planning, the professional experience you plan to undertake for this module, and your career ambitions.  

You will be given a score out of 10 for each criterion, this will then be converted to form a percentage using the weightings specified. The first two criteria will be given a score based on how fully you have met the criterion, and the level of critical analysis and evaluation included. We have included descriptors for guidance as to how these scores will be awarded. 

Criterion

1. Personal Development Progress

Description How to fulfil this

You will analyse the planned By discussing how you have applied actions taken to progress new knowledge to improve specific towards personal development skills or attributes identified as goals you have identified in personal goals. portfolio submission 1. You should refer to relevant (goal You will explain how you oriented) training undertaken, and/or overcame challenges faced learning from observing other when implementing your action professionals, receiving feedback plans. from others and knowledge gained from independent research. You should explain how you have applied this new knowledge in practice to improve your performance.

2. Personal Development Outcomes You will reflect upon the By presenting appropriate evidence personal development resulting to demonstrate your development in from your actions. relation to personal development You will make links from this needs, and specifying how these personal development to your relate to your plans for after future career plans. graduation. You should refer to feedback from others on the module or from the professional experience you have undertaken, or data you have gathered as the result of your action plans.

3. Module Engagement Tasks You will make explicit links to the results of the module engagement tasks you have submitted when evidencing progress towards personal goals and discussing your plans for after graduation. By completing all engagement tasks (Discussion Board posts) within the identified deadlines and referring to the content of these as appropriate within your portfolio.

4.Presentation Skills You will communicate By responding fully to the effectively and use audio-visual requirements for this assessment and technology appropriately to using technology and communication enhance your portfolio. skills (verbal and non-verbal) to communicate these professionally and compellingly. NB the criteria are weighted as follows: Criterion 1 – 40%; Criterion 2 – 40%; Criterion 3 – 10%; Criterion 4 – 10%.