Triggering Students' Ability to Influence Their Motivation and Affect Through a Self-Regulated Career-Oriented ePortfolio

• In Event: Innovation in Portfolio and Reflection Research: New Dimensions in Context, Methods, and Participants

Abstract

Research indicates that students experience a decrease in their self-efficacy beliefs, which leads to ineffective use of strategies and a high attrition rate during their first year in university. On such grounds, a Self-Regulated Career oriented ePortfolio as a dynamic social networking tool and orchestrated along the processes of Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) with career management skills was designed. The vision is to empower first-year students to regulate their learning process and to promote academic achievement. Towards this, it was conducted an experimental research within a computer science university department. The findings revealed that a significant increase on the means across students’ processes of SRL after the completion of the ePortfolio. Conclusively, the potential of developing ePortfolios should be further studied.

Authors

• Aikaterini Alexiou, University of Piraeus

• Fotini Paraskeva, University of Piraeus