Making College “Worth It” – Season 1, Episode 7

In this episode, we visit with Carol Van Zile-Tamsen, associate vice provost for curriculum, assessment, and teaching transformation at the University at Buffalo, about UB’s ePortfolio capstone requirement for general education.

View a transcript of this episode.

Meet our Guest

Carol Van Zile-Tamsen is the associate vice provost for curriculum, assessment, and teaching transformation at the University at Buffalo. Her primary focus involves student learning assessment, psychometrics, and using data for improvement efforts. She teaches pedagogy and psychometric theory for graduate students from across the university, as well as first-year seminars for incoming freshmen and transfer students. She is an alumni of UB, earning her doctorate in educational psychology in 1996. 

Episode Credits

This episode is co-hosted by Jessie L. Moore, Director of Elon University’s Center for Engaged Learning, and Nolan Schultheis, a first-year student at Elon University, studying Psychology with an interest in law. Jessie L. Moore edited the episode. Making College “Worth It” is produced by Elon University’s Center for Engaged Learning.

Episode art was created by Jennie Goforth, managing editor for the Center for Engaged Learning.

Funky Percussions is by Denys Kyshchuk (@audiocoffeemusic) – https://www.audiocoffee.net/. Soft Beat is by ComaStudio.

Learn More about Research Featured in this Episode

Learn about University at Buffalo’s UB Curriculum Capstone.

Two chapters in Cultivating Capstones share examples of ePortfolios as Capstones:

• “Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way: Implementing a Capstone Experience for General Education” by Carol Van Zile-Tamsen, Janet Bean, Christina Beaudoin, David Lewis, and Tania Von der Heidt
• “Adapting a Capstone: Projects and Portfolios across Four Courses and Three Institutions” by Sandra Bell, Frederick T. Evers, Shannon Murray, and Margaret Anne Smith

Receive a 20% discount on Cultivating Capstones at the Routledge site, using the discount code AFL04.

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