Amy Cicchino & Brandi Gilbert: Portfolios as high-impact practices
Update: 2025-12-02
Description
Associate Prof Dr Amy Cicchino, the Director of the Writing Center at the University of Central Florida and Brandi Gilbert, MPH, the Director of the Life-Health Sciences Internship Program at Indiana University Indianapolis talk about high-impact practices and how portfolios fit in.
Resources
- Assessment Institute
- HIPs in the States
- AAC&U list of high-impact practices
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principles
- Kuh, G.D, O’Donnell, K., & Reed, S. (2013). Ensuring quality and taking high-impact practices to scale. American Association of Colleges and Universities.
- Watson, C. E., Kuh, G. D., Rhodes, T. L., Penny Light, T., & Chen, H. L. (2016). Editorial: ePortfolios – The eleventh High Impact Practice. International Journal of ePortfolio, 6(2), 65–69.
- Kinzie, J., Silberstein, S., McCormick, A.C., Gonyea, R. M., & Dugan, B. (2021). Centering racially minoritized student voices in high-impact practices. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 53(4), 6–14
- IU Indianapolis ePortfolio Studio
- IU Indianapolis student ePortfolio showcase
- Elements of HIPs:
- Performance expectations set at appropriately high levels
- Significant investment of concentrated effort by students over an extended period
- Interactions with faculty and peers about substantive matters
- Experiences with diversity, wherein students are exposed to and must contend with people and circumstances that differ from those with which students are familiar
- Frequent, timely, and constructive feedback
- Opportunities to discover relevance of learning through real-world applications
- Public demonstration of competence
- Periodic, structured opportunities to reflect and integrate learning
- Making a difference for others
- Agency and accomplishment
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Production information
Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Artwork: Evonne Cheung
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward
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