DIGITAL PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION

Digital Portfolio Construction: A Guide for Showcasing Social Work Skills guides students through the process of compiling a digital portfolio-a collection of artifacts that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and competencies they have mastered and articulates all they have learned throughout their social work program.

The first part of the text focuses on constructing a digital portfolio, which includes the processes of gathering, selecting, reflecting, and sharing assignments and artifacts. In the later chapters, readers gain a greater understanding of the connection between what they learn within their courses and the social work competencies that are the hallmark of the profession.

Recognizing that the construction and presentation of a digital portfolio requires active engagement and collaboration between students, faculty, and administration, two valuable appendices provide teaching suggestions for social work instructors and describe the programmatic and administrative contexts necessary to support the successful compilation of a digital portfolio and its use as a program outcome measure.

Developed to help future practitioners increase their competence and confidence in presenting their knowledge and skills, Digital Portfolio Construction is a guide that can be integrated within social work curriculum and programs, or leveraged as a tool for independent study.

Dale Fitch is an associate professor of social work in the School of Social Work at the University of Missouri.

Michael J. Austin is the Mack Distinguished Professor of Nonprofit Management Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.

Mary Ruffolo is the Rosemary C. Sarri Collegiate Professor in the School of Social Work at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.