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ePortfolios in Teacher Education: Research on Prospective Teacher Learning and Program (Re)Design

Sat, April 9, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Marriott Marquis, Floor: Level Four, Congress

Session Type: Symposium

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This session brings together university teacher educators who work to support prospective teacher learning through ePortfolio reflection. Drawing on research conducted across three university-based teacher education programs that integrate ePortfolios, we address three questions: 1) How do preservice teachers reflect in their ePortfolios and how does that reflection transform their teaching practice? 2) Given the demands of standardized assessment (InTASC, edTPA, or local systems), how can teacher educators ensure that ePortfolios enable learning as well as evaluation? 3) How do teacher educators use ePortfolio data to guide program redesign? We provide findings based on multiple data sources such as ePortfolio reflection data, triangulated with classroom observations and interviews to address the research questions.

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