Electronic portfolios, often referred to as e-portfolios, are digital collections of work, accomplishments, and reflections that individuals create to showcase their skills, knowledge, and experiences. They are like online folders or websites where people can safely store and display their work in various forms, such as documents, images, videos, presentations, and more. E-portfolios serve as a way to highlight one's achievements and abilities to potential employers, educators, or anyone interested in learning more about the individual's capabilities.
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This group of students was much less likely to agree that they would advocate
for electronic portfolios for accreditation, student assessment or teacher assessment.
This paper describes a 2 - year study of implementing complex
electronic portfolios with undergraduate students who were preparing to be certified in elementary and special education.
Although the results were positive, researchers were disappointed that few students planned to
use electronic portfolios in their own teaching.
I predict that other educators and professionals I work with will want to produce
electronic portfolios when they see what I have accomplished.
In the all - important area of transfer, all but one student agreed that they can apply what they learned while
creating electronic portfolios to their teaching (see Table 3).
For electronic portfolios to become more commonplace at the K - 12 level, schools need more computers in individual classrooms.
Items were categorized according to the present
electronic portfolio assignment as «technology / resources,» «process,» «feedback / grading,» and «completed portfolios.»
Although some research has been done
on electronic portfolios, the research on portfolios is still in its infancy as asserted by Lyons (1998, p. 248) and should be conducted in the programs where portfolios are used.
Melinda became excited
about electronic portfolios; her middle school students now are creating e-portfolios that highlight their best work.
Helen Barrett agreed, saying, «
Electronic portfolios work best with students who have the technological capabilities to develop and maintain their own portfolios.»
This finding warrants further research as to why preservice teachers» enthusiasm for
electronic portfolios did not carry into their own projected classroom use.
Their fear is unjustified, says Kathleen Blake Yancey, an English professor at Florida State University, who cofounded the Inter / National Coalition for
Electronic Portfolio Research.
While at TaskStream, Sackman was a regular presenter at national education conferences and helped school districts and pre-service teacher education programs around the country to
incorporate electronic portfolios and other accountability measures into the infrastructure of their programs to better address changing accreditation requirements.
The ability to use hyperlinks to connect sections of portfolio content is one advantage of using
electronic portfolios instead of paper portfolios.
In fact, the project's co-director, Helen Barrett from the University of Alaska, has a Web site that really is a clearinghouse for
electronic portfolio assessment of teachers.
On the final three items, students rated the assignment above 7 on a 10 - point scale when compared to other assignments (M = 7.30), in overall satisfaction with the assignment (M = 7.57), and in overall satisfaction with their
own electronic portfolios (M = 7.87).
The undergraduate students» responses indicated that they believed the experience of creating
electronic portfolios increased the likelihood they would use technology in their future employment, a finding supported by previous research (Goldsby & Fazal, 2000; McKinney, 1998).
In a recent study, Sherry (2001) found that most of her graduate students who created
electronic portfolios planned to retain the standards - based framework when adding to and revising their portfolios after graduation, even though many were initially hesitant about overtly addressing standards for their field.
HiMama electronic portfolios and development assessment reports can be shared with parents on an as - needed basis or by the schedule set by the early learning center / program