Student Personal Development Portfolio and the role of PAAs

Peter Chalk

Undergraduate Centre TB2

Sept 2006

Why PDP important for students

• To encourage reflection & planning– On progress: academic, personal, training,

employment, volunteering, leisure

• Why?– Students long time out of education– Prepare for competing in job market– Ready to discuss key events in university life

when they meet their PAA

Certificate Level

• Key PDP stages:– Start of course; right choice? Dept policy?– Feedback; HEO assessment, action?– Programme Planning; reasons for choice– Results; plan for reassessment, right course?– Personal statement: achievements/ experience/

performance/ expectation/ action plan

I and H Level• I Level

– Employability module; work placement, CV completed?

– Programme planning: preparing for graduation/ project

– Personal statement; progress on course

• H Level– Project: dept info, supervisor, meeting, proposal?

– Graduation statement: may be required with transcript; use for reference; use for job applications; relate course to career aims

PAA support for PDP & PDP support for PAA

• PAA referrals coincide PDP stages: – non-attendance; work or course related?– module choice; discuss course aims– results; action plan for resits, LDU support?

• Ask student about PDP – are they completing it?

• PAA use PDP to assist write reference

University PDP Framework

• All degree students starting 2004/05• Web site /ugstudy/pdp or tailored/ customised• PDP linked to core spine modules HEO,

Employability, Project• PDP-supporting core modules in alternate

semesters• PDP related assessment introduced for 2005/06

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