Rural Area Students’ Behavior Characteristics on e-Portfolio As Learning Experience

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The main objective of this research is to present the students’ behavior characteristics regarding the impact of e-portfolio into the student learning environment and represented into achievement, attitudes, and interaction.
It’s about a concrete Romanian experience developed, since 2005 till 2008, as a higher education program for improving quality education of preschool and primary school teachers from rural area. This program, free of charge, for the unskilled teachers from rural areas, was structured on e-learning principles. In Moldova region, there were involved 173 students, with ages between 19 to 50 years old. Our study is focused on behavior about e-portfolio during the e-learning education and followed three aspects: achievement, attitude and interaction. For the first variable, achievement, there were longitudinal analyzed data on school results obtained in three years of university studies through e-portfolio assessment. The second variable, attitude, was investigated through a questionnaire (Likert scale) that was given yearly, at every beginning and ending of university year. And the last variable, interaction, is a quantitative variable reflected into the number of access the e-learning site for each assessment theme as e-portfolio through those three years. The results are structured on rural area students’ behavior characteristics on e-portfolio as learning experience.

Stream: Curriculum and Pedagogy; Student Learning, Learner Experiences, Learner Diversity

Paper: Rural Area Students’ Behavior Characteristics on e-Portfolio As Learning Experience

Gianina Ana Masari has Ph.D. on Education Sciences and she is lecturer at Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. Her expertise area are on teaching theory, giftedness, counseling and underachievement. She published numerous books and studies on education and psychology issues, books as: Quality of social context and high ability development of underachiever adolescent (2006); Introduction into School Counseling (2005); School Counseling and Career Guidance (1998). The latest studies were on: Perspectives on in-service education of preschool and primary school teachers from Romania (2008); Assembly of action indicators for pre-service training of graduated teachers from Kindergarten and Primary School (2008); Comparative study on learning styles of pupils from elementary school and gymnasium (2008); School counseling – experiences and attitudes in primary school (2008); Theoretical and practical reasons for parents’ education of gifted underachievers (2007). Also, she develops the first master program for preschool and primary school teachers from Romania.