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Portfolio Assessments

A Portfolio is an assessment of your prior work/life experience through written documentation from which you have developed sufficient college-level learning to earn credit for a specific class.

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What is a portfolio

A portfolio is an organizational tool that lets you showcase the college-level learning you've gained from real-world experience. A portfolio can be used to provide the evidence of your learning and request credit for a specific class or, in some cases, for general elective credits.

This option is a great fit if you've learned through hands-on experiences — like starting or running a business, managing a big project, or volunteering long-term with a community organization.

Earn Credits for What You Know

LC State offers a variety of portfolio opportunities In many subject areas, and we are happy to see if there are additional areas where we can add more. If you don’t see an area that you are interested in, please contact LC Elevate. We are always expanding our portfolio options!

Prior Learning Assessment Course

This course is an 8-week, 1-credit Prior Learning Assessment Course offered at a reduced tuition rate, which will provide general orientation and guidance in the portfolio process.

How to create a portfolio

  1. Students must be enrolled at LC State in the semester in which they submit a Portfolio Assessment.
  2. Students must not be enrolled in the course for which they intend to submit a Portfolio Assessment.
  3. Students may not submit a Portfolio Assessment for a course they have previously audited, previously failed, or for which they have received credit via another means of prior learning assessment (e.g., Challenge Exam, CLEP test, AP Exam, etc.).
  4. Students may only submit a Portfolio Assessment for a specific course one time. The Portfolio Assessment will not be returned to the student after evaluation and will be retained in accordance with Records Retention policies.
  5. Credit awarded through the Portfolio Assessment, and other means of prior learning assessment is limited to 25% of the total credits required for a degree.

  1. Contact Adult Learning at priorlearning@lcsc.edu, or LC Elevate (elevate@lcsc.edu), with questions or to begin the portfolio process.

  2. Adult Learning will contact your advisor to discuss courses that may be available for the Portfolio Assessment.

  3. You and your advisor can review the avaiable Portfolio Assessments and begin working on the development of the submission as soon as you are ready. The files can be found at Portfolio Assessments - Prior Learning | Lewis-Clark State (https://www.lcsc.edu/prior-learning/portfolio-assessments).

Portfolio Assessment Guides

Below are the course specific templates for the Portfolio Assessment. Each guide consists of an overview of the Portfolio Assessment components and is followed by a template for the course for which you are creating the Portfolio Assessment. Be sure to use the template and ensure that you are providing evidence and using a narrative to connect the evidence to the standards/outcomes for each course.