Portfolio Assignments in Teacher Education: A Tool For Self-regulating the Learning Process?

Autor: Jetske Strijbos, Wil Meeus, Arno Libotton
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2007
Předmět:
Zdroj: International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Vol 1, Iss 2 (2007)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1931-4744
DOI: 10.20429/ijsotl.2007.010217
Popis: This study examines the effects of a portfolio programme on self-regulation – and thus among third year students of teacher education training to be secondary school teachers. Data collection was by means of self-reporting before, during and after the portfolio programme and via perception questionnaires. The study indicates a significant increase in self-regulation. The portfolio programme therefore improves students’ capacity to go through their learning process independently, although the analysis also shows that the rising score with respect to the construct ‘self-regulation’ stems from the increase of only one sub-scale (regulation). The comparison of the students’ own opinions with those of the portfolio supervisors also reveals the weak links in the self-regulation cycle. Students have difficulty evaluating and re-orientating their learning process. It also appears that students do not set and/or implement new objectives themselves, which means that they cannot regulate their own learning process on a completely independent basis because they have not thoroughly mastered all the components of the self-regulation cycle.
Databáze: Directory of Open Access Journals