ePortfolio purpose in the accounting major:
To provide multiple opportunities for students to evidence their professional capabilities, as they relate to the Accounting discipline, with a VIEW to improved learning outcomes and employment.
eportfolio type
The type of ePortfolio designed for the Accounting major is a mixture of developmental, assessment and showcase ePortfolios.
- the developmental component will provide learners with the opportunity to develop their learning through regular self-reflection, communication and feedback between the learner and the teaching team.
- the assessment component will allow learners to demonstrate their performance against the nationally agreed Accounting Threshold Learning Standards.
- the showcase component will allow learners to demonstrate their achievements and exemplary work for employability.
ePortfolio embedded in assessment across core Accounting Major units
Embedding ePortfolios across core Accounting units in a course, not just one or two, allows students to consolidate their learning, make connections across different units in the course and build their reflective skills over time.
The ePortfolio is embedded in five of the six core Accounting major units as assessment items:
- aligned to nationally agreed Accounting Threshold Learning Standards that are mapped to the Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes.
- designed to support students' ability to critically self-reflect as a key component of their self and professional learning and development.
- designed to motivate students to regularly reflect on their learning, and evidence that learning, by curating artefacts to their ePortfolio.
- intended for students to organise and select what they have curated over their study as part of the evidence of their learning for contribution to their showcase Accounting ePortfolio at the end of their course.