Related Pages

Can portfolios support learning and assessment of substantive law?

Yes! The key advantage of using a portfolio here is that it obliges students to provide evidence of engagement with the course or module as a process of learning, not...

How easy are portfolios to assess?

It depends on the portfolio! Assessing portfolios can be a long job, and can raise issues of assessment validity and reliability. All of these problems can be overcom...

Is there anything portfolios can assess that other tools can't?

Overall, the answer is probably ‘no’, although there are some skills portfolios test which are not commonly assessed by other mechanisms in higher education, for ...

Should portfolios be graded?

It is up to you and your assessment regime. The answer to this one turns again on assessment validity and reliability, and this is a bigger topic than we can do credi...

Why should I consider using portfolios?

Portfolios aren’t a ‘cure all’, but they can provide evidence of a wider range of personal and intellectual abilities and skills than most conventional forms ...

Comments

There are no comments at this time

Tagged

personal development planning

portfolios

Home » Resources » HE policy

HE policy

Back to the (academic) future

UKCLE: celebrating ten years Part of UKCLE’s Visions of legal education, Back to the (academic) future is a short film commissioned to coincide with UKCLE’s 10th anniversary and premièred at the...

Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct (ACLEC)

The Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct (ACLEC) was set up in April 1991 under the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990. In 1992 ACLEC commenced a major review of legal education in...

Reassessing band funding for law: a discussion paper

This paper by Roger Burridge (then UKCLE Director) was presented to CHULS (the Committee of Heads of University Law Schools) at their meeting on 17 September 2003. The issue of rebanding is now being...

Visions of legal education

UKCLE: celebrating ten years 2010 sees the 10th anniversary of the Higher Education Academy’s subject centre network. We are taking the opportunity to reflect on developments in legal education over...

What are the three main challenges facing legal education over the next ten years?

Share your views Below are responses to the first question posed in the Visions of legal education session at the Learning in Law Annual Conference 2010 – see the Changes page for suggestions of how...

What needs to change to meet the challenges facing legal education over the next 10 years?

Share your views Below are responses to the second question posed in the Visions of legal education session at the Learning in Law Annual Conference 2010 – see the Challenges page for details of the...

Resource Tags

law schools personal development planning portfolios  

©UKCLE 2000-2010 UK Centre for Legal Education