Preparing for Career Change - Engaging Graduate Students in WIL Outcome Self-Determination and Self-Assessment Using E-Portfolios for Research Skills Development & Goal Attainment Scaling
18 Pages Posted: 25 Jul 2017
Date Written: August 12, 2016
Abstract
MBA students have invested heavily in their education and learning as a basis for their career development. How are MBA programs preparing them for industrial disruption? Most of ‘assurance of learning’ processes and literature are academically driven and based on past teaching methods. This presentation invites conference participants to consider how they may use various tools in addressing students’ engagement in assurance of learning and the facilitation of career development learning for MBA students, as they face the challenges of future industrial change.
This paper shares some preliminary work to show a way of using teaching and learning frameworks and technology to offer more student engagement in developing and measuring MBA student learning outcomes and enhancing their career development tools. It outlines preliminary findings of an ongoing study of MBA students’ goal setting about their capstone strategy project, which entails using individualised goal attainment scaling (GAS) along with their e-portfolio as tools for facilitating flexibility of goal setting and associated learning outcomes and as a followup measure for their self-monitoring of their performance in terms of their career, workplace and personal goals in anticipating change.
Keywords: Learning Outcomes; MBA; Goal Attainment Scaling
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