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Online Student Portfolio



Stuart Palmer
Institute of Teaching and Learning
Deakin University, Australia

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Introduction


Internationally, engineering education accrediting bodies have moved toward outcomes-based assessment of graduate competency
This is typically realised in the form of a list of graduate attributes that students should exhibit by the completion of their studies


Graduate attributes
Arising from the push in higher education for quality assurance, accountability for outcomes and capability of graduates, specifying a list of qualities or capabilities that graduates will attain provides a benchmark against which the performance of a higher education institution can be measured