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Getting Started With Portfolios: A Vision For Implementing Reflection To Enhance Student Learning, Stephanie Burrell, Laurence Miners, Kathryn Nantz, Roben Torosyan

Roben Torosyan Ph.D.

For full text go to: goo.gl/5NrMhD Excerpt: As Myles Horton described the essential task, “You only learn from the experience you learn from” (Newman, 2006, p. 240); but the question becomes how to guide learning from experience without inviting students to game the system by generating good confessions or conversion stories. One prompt that Roben created, for example, asks students in a core philosophy course to: Reflect on your own assumptions, strengths and areas to improve. Show, for example, how your own thinking changed or deepened, or how that was a struggle, and what you take away from the change …