Angela Smallwood's National Teaching Fellowship (awarded 2000) was used to consult upon, design and develop a Web-based Personal Evidence Database (PED), to support students in collecting and reflecting on the outcomes (especially skills outcomes) of the full range of activities, academic and non-academic, upon which they need to draw in order to articulate and develop their employability and prepare to present themselves to graduate employers. The PED is a generic, cross-institutional tool, usable by students of all disciplines, from Medicine or Engineering to Economics or History. It is now available to all University of Nottingham undergraduate students.
Students enter data in the PED via two possible routes. They can begin by identifying an activity and move on to analyse the skills derived from it, as demonstrated in the Powerpoint presentation PED Activities route.
Alternatively, they can begin by analysing their set of existing skills and move on to enter the activities which evidence these, as in the Powerpoint presentation PED Skills route.