Developing Digital Portfolios

Developing digital portfolios: investigating how digital portfolios can facilitate pupil talk about learning. Kate Wall, Steve Higgins, Jen Miller and Nick Packard Centre for Learning and Teaching, University of Newcastle, UK.

Technology, Pedagogy and Education Vol. 15, No. 3, October 2006, pp. 261-273

As part of this research project I read a lot of articles in the areas of eportfolios and assessment for learning. Like anything you read, be it a magazine article, novel, or newspaper, as you are reading you can immediately connect (or not) with the text and message. This article was one of those. Throughout reading it I found myself nodding my head and murmuring consent to the ideas and concepts it was discussing as they mirrored some of the central aims of my research.

If you are interested in eportfolios, assessment for learning and thinking skills I thoroughly recommend you source a copy of this article.

Some ideas the conclusions that grabbed the attention of my highlighter:

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