Abstract
This study examines the effects of a portfolio programme on self-regulation – and thus among third year students of teacher education training to be secondary school teachers. Data collection was by means of self-reporting before, during and after the portfolio programme and via perception questionnaires. The study indicates a significant increase in self-regulation. The portfolio programme therefore improves students’ capacity to go through their learning process independently, although the analysis also shows that the rising score with respect to the construct ‘self-regulation’ stems from the increase of only one sub-scale (regulation). The comparison of the students’ own opinions with those of the portfolio supervisors also reveals the weak links in the self-regulation cycle. Students have difficulty evaluating and re-orientating their learning process. It also appears that students do not set and/or implement new objectives themselves, which means that they cannot regulate their own learning process on a completely independent basis because they have not thoroughly mastered all the components of the self-regulation cycle.
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Recommended Citation
Strijbos, Jetske; Meeus, Wil; and Libotton, Arno
(2007)
"Portfolio Assignments in Teacher Education: A Tool For Self-regulating the Learning Process?,"
International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning:
Vol. 1:
No.
2, Article 17.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.20429/ijsotl.2007.010217
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