Portfolio interoperability progress

Competence structures
for portfolio tools

Simon GrantJISC Centre for Educational Technology
and Interoperability Standards (CETIS)Telford2010-10-21

Portfolios evidence competence

(and skill, etc. etc. let's not worry at this stage about the terminology)

Portfolio (and related) tools often assist learners to evidence their attainment in areas of competence

Several reasonsself-tracking of attainment; action planning

formative or summative assessment

presentation to others

Many different areas of ability

Each area has a different set of skills etc.

Some of these are arranged hierarchically

There are large overlaps

There is much common ground among the ways different tools work

different areas of ability are treated

Common interest in reuse

There is a common interest in being able toreuse the same tool in different ability areas

deal with the same ability area using different tools

To do this, we need to decouple tools and ability areas

Communicating structures

To create structures in one place, then use them in another

they should be defined in a common format

so that the structures can be output

communicated

input

automatically by relevant tools.

Exposing the structures

When a suitable format is agreed

structures and their parts can be given URIshandled by web servers to deliverhuman readable information for people

machine processable information for other systems

to be used as links e.g. in portfoliosso that definitions don't need to be duplicated

so that automatic matching can be done

Aims of today's meeting

Share how current tools handle such structures

Clarify the points in common

Try to find some agreement on common model

Agree requirements for interoperability

Suggest next steps for progress

Consider what needs to be done with Leap2A

Introduce JISC plans to support this work

Issues arisen in discussion

searching for other comparable competencies

who is it for?

can we say that a result is the result of an assessment process intended to assess a particular competency?

how do we integrate with Leap2A?

what really belongs to assessment, not to the definitions?

how do we integrate with claims?

hive off domain specific stuff into Leap2A

need to document use cases

pedagogical stuff

Possible features of single definitions

title

description

URI / identifier

DC terms

assessment method

assessment criterion

verification required or can be self-assessed

prerequisites

co-requisites

similarity relationships

rating (comment on quality of skill)

weighting

context and equipment

type (knowledge/behaviour, skill, etc) in terms of a stated category scheme

status

evidenced by

level (in terms of a stated scheme)

Possible features of structures

title

description

URI / identifier

DC terms

order

composition relationships3rd party mapping

mandatory

identity with external definition

Defining bodies

e.g.Sector Skills Councils

universities

awarding bodies

professional bodies

employers

industry associations

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