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Electronic portfolios: Perspectives of students, teachers and parents

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This study explores the perspectives of students, teachers and parents to evaluate the use of digital portfolios as an additional way to capture and enhance the learning of elementary students in a public school setting and as an opportunity to communicate this learning to parents. The research questions address four problems: complex assessment of learning, parental participation, and student and teacher satisfaction and the impact of the portfolio on teaching methods. Particularly, we are interested in the subjective satisfaction of students, teachers and parents in the portfolio development process. We are also interested in whether students learn to reflect constructively on their work, whether teachers have changed their teaching methods and whether parents believe the portfolio was used or could be used for enhanced communications.

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  1. Learning Technologies, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA

    Julie K. McLeod

  2. College of Education and Human Services, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Commerce, TX, USA

    Sheri Vasinda

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McLeod, J.K., Vasinda, S. Electronic portfolios: Perspectives of students, teachers and parents. Educ Inf Technol 14, 29–38 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-008-9077-5

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