Do portfolios have a future?

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• 作者：Erik Driessen
• 关键词：Assessment ; Portfolio ; Competency ; based education ; Reflection ; Medical education
• 刊名：Advances in Health Sciences Education
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：22
• 期：1
• 页码：221-228
• 全文大小：341KB
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Medical Education;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-1677
• 卷排序：22

文摘

While portfolios have seen an unprecedented surge in popularity, they have also become the subject of controversy: learners often perceive little gain from writing reflections as part of their portfolios; scholars question the ethics of such obligatory reflection; and students, residents, teachers and scholars alike condemn the bureaucracy surrounding portfolio implementation in competency-based education. It could be argued that mass adoption without careful attention to purpose and format may well jeopardize portfolios’ viability in health sciences education. This paper explores this proposition by addressing the following three main questions: (1) Why do portfolios meet with such resistance from students and teachers, while educators love them?; (2) Is it ethical to require students to reflect and then grade their reflections?; (3) Does competency-based education empower or hamper the learner during workplace-based learning? Twenty-five years of portfolio reveal a clear story: without mentoring, portfolios have no future and are nothing short of bureaucratic hurdles in our competency-based education programs. Moreover, comprehensiveportfolios, which are integrated into the curriculum and much more diverse in content than reflective portfolios, can serve as meaningful patient charts, providing doctor and patient with useful information to discuss well-being and treatment. In this sense, portfolios are also learner charts that comprehensively document progress in a learning trajectory which is lubricated by meaningful dialogue between learner and mentor in a trusting relationship to foster learning. If we are able to make such comprehensive and meaningful use of portfolios, then, yes, portfolios do have a bright future in medical education.