Effectiveness of Educational Electronic Portfolio in Classroom Assessment at College Level

Abstract

The utilization of educational technology is an emerging trend and phenomenon around the globe, it
is also introducing rapidly in the education system. Currently, the formation of the latest opportunities, context, and digital technology bring the important changes in the teaching learning strategies and overall evaluation used in approximately all discipline, which they used digital portfolio. The educational electronic portfolio plays their role in the students learning as well as in their academic assessment. The incorporation of technology is common in the education system but the use of the electronic portfolio for students, assessment is a new phenomenon in academia. Action research was carried out in a public college in Punjab, Pakistan. The sample of the study was 25 students from second year, and five students from PGD program, and all 14 instructors of the college. The educational electronic portfolio was developed by the instructors with the help of the experts and then the introduction and guidance about educational electronic portfolio was given to selected students and all instructors of the college. Both instructors and students created the educational electronic portfolio. The data was collected by students and instructors. Two Likert scale questionnaires with 3-point options were used for data collection. Data was analyzed by SPSS and Descriptive statistics were calculated. Findings show that the majority of the instructors and students were in favour of the educational electronic portfolio and consider it as an effective and innovative tool for learning and assessment as well. Study recommended that instructors need to learn to create such type of educational electronic portfolios for students’ assessment purposes. Moreover, this strategy can be applied in the classroom to enhance students’ learning.