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Original Articles

The Impact of Context on Readings of Teaching Portfolios

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Pages 31-42 | Published online: 22 Aug 2006
 

Abstract

This study explored the experiences of readers of portfolios created in either formative or summative micro‐contexts. Interviews were conducted with three readers in the formative context (mentors on a graduate certificate in higher education programme), and three readers in the summative context (senior staff committee members reading portfolios created for promotion or confirmation). As expected, thematic analysis of the interview transcripts showed discernible differences in the ways developmental and summative portfolios were read. However, the parallels in the issues raised suggested the strong influence of the macro‐context—an institution with a policy providing for the summative use of teaching portfolios—on the way portfolios in both micro‐contexts are read.

Cette étude explore les expériences de lecteurs de portfolios produits dans des micro‐contextes soit formatifs, soit certificatifs. Des entretiens ont été effectués auprès de trois lecteurs dans un contexte formatif (tous mentors dans le cadre d’un programme de certificat postgradué en enseignement supérieur) et de trois lecteurs dans un contexte certificatif (tous membres seniors de comités de personnel évaluant les portfolios créés en vue d’une promotion ou d’une confirmation). Tel qu’envisagé, une analyse thématique de la transcription des entretiens tend à démontrer des différences perceptibles dans la façon selon laquelle les portfolios visant le développement et les portfolios visant la certification ont été lus. Toutefois, les problèmes relevés parallèlement laissent croire à une influence considérable du macro‐contexte—une institution dont les politiques favorisent l’usage certificatif des portfolios—sur la façon selon laquelle les portfolios sont lus dans leur micro‐contexte.

Notes

A very preliminary report on the study described in this article was presented at a conference (Conrad & Bowie, Citation2000), in the expectation of a larger‐scale follow‐up study. Given that the larger‐scale study turned out to be ultimately infeasible, we decided to develop a full analysis of the results of the small‐scale study and to reconsider our findings in the context of an updated literature review.

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