This study examines the effects of reflection category and reflection quality on learning outcomes during Web-based portfolio assessment process. Experimental subjects consist of forty-five eight-grade students in a “Computer Application” course. Through the Web-based portfolio assessment system, these students write reflection, and join self-assessment and peer-assessment. The Phrase Processin...

Outcome-based education is a topic of growing interest in educational circles today. More performance-oriented than traditional learning approaches, outcome-based education requires students to demonstrate what they know and what they can do. Because of this emphasis, outcome-based curricula will require new methods to assess student achievement. One approach is the portfolio, a repository that...

In recent years is becoming habitual use of the electronic portfolio for learning and assessment of students. This is due to the need for teachers empower students through reflection on their own learning processes. Recently, we have worked with Mahara, Exabis, Google Sites and WordPress software, in order to compare them and see which makes it easier the work of the student, thereby facilitati...

Background: Portfolios are used as instruments to support learning, competence achievement, and reflection [1]. When portfolios are used for assessment purposes, validity of portfolio data is paramount. This systematic review was performed to investigate in which way validity of portfolio data in medical education are studied and reported in scientific literature. The validity framework of Mess...

Portfolios have been used for assessment in higher education as an alternative to exams and assignments. E-portfolios offer staff a digital technology that can be both a personalised learning space, owned and controlled by the learner, and a presentation tool which can be used for formal assessment purposes. However, this can result in a tension between process and product, where e-portfolios b...

The paper presents the results of the piloting or pilot test in a virtual classroom. This e-portfolio was carried out in the 2006-2007 academic year, with students of the Doctorate in Information Society, at the Open University of Catalonia. The electronic portfolio is a strategy for competence based assessment. This experience shows the types of e-portfolios, where students show their work wit...

This chapter introduces portfolio system design perspectives that incorporate concept mapping and the map-based user interface. It also presents a prototype of a portfolio system that has been developed based on the discussed perspectives, along with its capacities and the lessons learned in the design and pilot-testing processes. The author argues that a concept map-based design can enhance a ...