E-portfolio in teacher education - multiple case study

Abstract

This article shows the balance between the E-Portfolio for learning and for assessment by presenting the first analysis made to E-Portfolio Mestrado em Ensino de Educação Musical no Ensino Básico Jean Piaget / Arcozelo in development context of the European Area of Higher Education (EAHE). The analysis is carried out under a research - multiple case study - which focuses on analysing the balance between the E-Portfolio for learning (focusing on the student's purposes) and summative assessment (focusing on the institution's purposes) with the goal of a professional development throughout life. This analysis, although it is the first of other data collection technique«es to perform which are privileged to interview, observation and document analysis, enables detection of the presence of E-Portfolio with two purposes, bucking the trend of implementing the EPortfolio summative purposes at the expense of E-Portfolio for learning. Thus, the EPortfolio was established as a tool to support professional development throughout life, with the balance between the two purposes of a good thing for the teacher education, because on one hand reflects throughout the process (with E-Portfolio the purpose of learning support) and in the end reflects on the skills built up one point (E-Portfolio for summative assessment purposes).