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Online Learning Record (OLR): a portfolio record integrating classroom activity, assessment, and research

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The OLR is described as "a portfolio record integrating classroom activity (teaching and learning), assessment, and research" (Syverson, 1995). It supports self-evaluation by requiring students to interview someone who knows them well, write their own reflection, make observations on class activities, select work samples, and interpret them. It structures evaluation through five dimensions of learning: confidence and independence, knowledge and understanding, skills and strategies, use of prior and emerging experience, and reflection. It also embodies rhetorical concepts, functioning as a written argument for a grade with claim, reasons, and evidence.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Teacher time to explain its format, purpose, and philosophy, plus readings with examples, because the OLR was foreign and complex to students

Constraints

  • The article states the OLR is difficult for native speakers to appropriate as well, and that students struggled to match the five dimensions of learning within the three areas of rhetoric, research, and collaboration

Target Learners

  • first-year university composition students, including international students

Target Learning Goals

  • self-evaluation, reflection, and development in rhetoric, research, and collaboration

Claims

Examples

Key Sources

  • Nelson, Charles P.; Kim, Mi-Kyung. (2001). Contradictions, Appropriation, and Transformation: An Activity Theory Approach to L2 Writing and Classroom Practices. Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED464497
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