Analysis of Scheme and Contents for Electronic Portfolios

• Main Authors: Wei-Chien Lin, 林維倩
• Other Authors: 張基成
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/c94rde

碩士 === 國立臺北科技大學 === 技術及職業教育研究所 === 95 === There has been a sudden rise in interest in portfolios in higher education in Taiwan in the past decade. For the capabilities of realizing goal making, process representation, learning organization and reflection that portfolio possess, students are more engaged in the active learning process and reflection during the portfolio creation. Electronic portfolio refers to the infusion of multimedia into the portfolio creation, which incorporates the varieties of media resources with the conventional content production process. In e-portfolio creation process, learners’ abilities of item selection, presentation and organization are more critical to the success of portfolio creation and require more profound exploration. With the above in mind, this study intends to analyze the content items and structures of students’ electronic portfolios, to explore the presentation formats, media, items, contents, and table of content strategies students take advantages during their portfolio creation. The results suggest that: 1. Students in this study prefer the media format of presentation files (ppt) during their e-portfolio creation process. 2. Among the 9 major categories of portfolio items, students did not perform averagely in each category, and the category of “Evidence of showing development and progress” has the smallest share of percentage in this study. 3. There are more variety and diversity in students’ portfolio entries, but most of the multimedia formats are still static media. 4. Students incorporate different strategies when generating their table of portfolio content, the main 5 types students showed in this study include taking the order of “Chronological period”, “Lesson / Curriculum”, “Media format”, “Pieces of work” and “Mixed”. Moreover, the top 3 strategies is using “Content item”, “Pieces of work” and “Mixed” indexing order. From the results, we proposed several suggestions for future practices and system development: For practices of utilizing e-portfolio in classroom, more attention should be paid to students’ ability of website and dynamic multimedia creation. As for the content items, “evidences showing development and progress” is important and requires more emphases. “Semi-structural” portfolio is recommended since it allows appropriate evaluation and flexibility for both teachers and students. On the other hand, for the e-portfolio system development, the 5 main strategies of table of content that this study finds could contribute to the future development of e-portfolio platform to enhance the system features and also the capacities of supporting more multimedia formats in the future.