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ERIC Number: EJ680308
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Jan-1
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-0969-594X
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Digital Portfolios in Pre-Service Teacher Education
Woodward, Helen; Nanlohy, Philip
Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice, v11 n2 p167-178 Jan 2004
With the pre-service student portfolio process and product well in hand in a paper-based format, in the Bachelor of Education (Primary) (B.Ed. Primary) at University of Western Sydney (UWS), new horizons have presented themselves. These new possibilities are facilitated but not driven by developments in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The impetus for this study comes from the changing context in which the students will work and from the rapidly evolving mediums of communication employed by the society these future teachers will serve. With new technologies being developed the use of digital portfolios could give an extra dimension to student learning as well as giving choice and variety to the reporting and presenting of that learning. This paper aims to report on the process of the development of digital portfolios as an alternative method of reporting and presenting student learning, as opposed to the current paper-based portfolios used in Pre-service Teacher Education at UWS. A study of the processes employed by nine students who elected to develop their portfolios digitally was carried out over a three-semester period. This resulted in a procedure that assisted students in using ICT to showcase their learning. The advantages and limitations of the use of such technology and the results of this process during its initial implementation are discussed.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Audience: Students; Practitioners
Language: English
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