Portfolio Year 1

Full course description

The bachelor's portfolio is an instrument with which the competence development and related longitudinal throughlines or learning arcs can be identified and managed by the students and supervised by a mentor-coach. It contains a collection of work that showcases your competencies, skills, and knowledge in various areas. Portfolios can include a wide range of evidence, from academic work to extracurricular activities and self-initiated projects, offering a comprehensive view of your abilities and achievements. It includes reflections that provide insights into how you understand your learning process, how you overcome challenges, and how you apply your knowledge and skills in different contexts. The portfolio holds fixed components that help you reflect on your progress toward goals, identify areas for improvement, and set meaningful objectives for the future. At the end of the year the portfolio and the performance information it holds allows you to write a substantiated analysis of competence development which is evaluated in an integrated way as part of the bachelor competency exam year 1. In the first year, special attention is paid to learning to recognise and analyse learning experiences.

To discuss your development and to practice and get used to working with the portfolio, you have at least four individual meetings with your mentor-coach in year 1. The portfolio must be updated before every mentor meeting. To this end you will continuously gather information during the year (feedback, assessments, evaluations, tests). Your portfolio will not only hold feedback, but also indicate how you subsequently used this feedback, for instance to help derive new learning goals (feed-up) or directions for future learning (feedforward). You will reflect on self-regulation strategies, on how you accepted feedback of peers, teachers and mentors, how you used it to improve task performance, and to identify (self-care) strategies that build resilience in relation to failed efforts or unpleasant events. Reflection on portfolio content will also help you begin to identify patterns in past choices and outcomes, assess their effectiveness, and apply this insight to make better decisions in the future. Finally, it will help you identify academic and career options based on your personal interests and values 

The final assessment for this course is pass or fail - and not a numerical grade between 0,0 and 10,0.