Assessment format

Portfolios

In the main phase, just like in the Propedeuse (first-year program), you will work with three portfolios, namely: ‘Dream Portfolio,’ ‘Growth Portfolio,’ and ‘Design Portfolio.’ Each of these portfolios is interconnected, with its own specific purpose and format.

Your Dream Portfolio is generally your starting point. It provides you and your teacher with insights into the kind of work you really like and who your heroes are. Your Dream Portfolio is an important part of the conversations you have with your mentor within the context of Constructive Alignment, where you discuss what you want to create and how you think you will approach it (see the section: Constructive Alignment). For the Dream Portfolio, you can use the template (link to the template).

Your Growth Portfolio is the document you submit for your assessment. It should provide sufficient insights for teachers and peers who are not directly involved in your process. It should have a reading time of no more than 20 minutes. There are several components that your Growth Portfolio must include (see: Content of the Growth Portfolio).

Your Design Portfolio is the showcase of your work and indicates who you are as a designer and where you stand at this moment. You do this by showcasing final products. This portfolio should be created in such a way that it is presentable to the outside world/industry and can be used when searching for an internship or eventually finding a job. You can decide the format yourself.

Your Design Portfolio forms the basis of your presentation during your assessment, where you will talk about the designs you have made and explain why you made them in the way you did.

Constructive Alignment

Constructive alignment is a clear and regular alignment between you and your mentor and/or other specialist teachers. In this alignment, you talk about your learning process. You discuss, among other things:

How you are working on, or have been working on, getting closer to what you want to achieve
What is (still) needed to get there
What feedback has contributed to this and how you will organize future feedback
How you have aligned the learning objectives with the level of complexity and independence appropriate to your learning path
Your CMD-Canvas

Constructive Alignment is not about feedback at the product level -for that, you can request consultations- but rather about how the feedback you have requested and made visible is part of your learning process.