Using Records of Achievement in Higher Education Book

	Acknowledgements	8
	The Contributors	9
	Glossary	13
	Preface	15
Ch. 1	Records of Achievement: Background, definitions and uses	19
Ch. 2	Profiling in Higher Education	25
Ch. 3	Records of Achievement and Admissions to Higher Education	33
Ch. 4	Passport Scheme	41
Ch. 5	Recording of Achievement within Accreditation of Prior Learning: A Case for Three Capabilities	47
Ch. 6	Portfolio Development for National Vocational Qualifications	52
Ch. 7	Some Institutional and Practical Implications of Introducing Records of Achievement	56
Ch. 8	Maintaining the Ethos of Records of Achievement in the Higher Education Curriculum and Assessment	63
Ch. 9	Using Portfolios for Personal and Career Development	69
Ch. 10	The Record of Achievement as a Learning Resource for all Students	74
Ch. 11	Profiling and Assessment of Professional and Personal Transferable Skills Acquired by Students on a BSc Honours Course in Psychology	79
Ch. 12	Using Portfolios to Record Progress and Assess Achievement	87
Ch. 13	Developing Student-centred Records of Achievement on an M. Eng Course	92
Ch. 14	Records of Achievement in Relation to Personal Learning	97
Ch. 15	Student Empowerment through the Recording and Reviewing Process: Theatre in Education with Student Teachers	106
Ch. 16	Using Information Technology for a Student-produced Record of Achievement	114
Ch. 17	Diploma of Personal and Professional Development	121
Ch. 18	Recording Learning and Development on Sandwich Placements	129
Ch. 19	Self-development - The Buck Stops Here	132
Ch. 20	Records of Achievement and Self-development: A Business Initiative in Argos	138
Ch. 21	Why Use Records of Achievement? An Employer's Perspective	144
Ch. 22	The Future Role of Recording Achievement	149
	Index	157