Evaluating Electronic Portfolios in Teacher Education (HC)

A volume in Research Methods in Educational TechnologySeries Editor Walter F. Heinecke University of VirginiaWhile Research on the effectiveness of electronic portfolios for assessment and accreditation isemerging many who are now using or who are beginning to use electronic portfolios are lookingto justify the cost and effort involved. The purposes of this volume are to create an in-depth portraitof ways in which electronic portfolios efforts can be evaluated effectively and to provideexamples of e-folio evaluation in the form of case studies.The intention of these chapters is to serve as models for assessment and evaluation of electronicportfolios in teacher education as well as to spark further investigations on this tool that isbecoming ubiquitous in so many SCDE's across the United States and abroad.