Background

Student ePortfolios provide an interactive space for faculty, student peers, and potential employers to view skillsets and reflective expressions of students.

Educational Activity

The adoption of ePortfolios in an interdisciplinary, competency-based, master's degree program in clinical research at a university in the Midwestern United States is described. Students submitted their ePortfolios as their culminating assessment. A survey was used to collect objective and open-ended responses from 104 students between 2015 and 2019 followed by a voluntary post-survey interview. Two ePortfolio platforms and instructional methods were compared.

Critical Analysis of the Educational Activity

A user-friendly platform enhanced student engagement and reduced student and faculty frustration with the ePortfolio requirement. Thirty-seven students and alumni responded to an ePortfolio survey, and five students shared their experiences in a post-survey interview. Students described positive experiences related to their academic program and job search as a result of completing the ePortfolio. However, alumni were not strongly motivated to maintain their ePortfolio post-graduation. ePortfolios provide evidence of student acquisition of core competencies in a professional graduate degree. Facilitating the process of ePortfolio creation with instruction guides, exemplar ePortfolios, and an evaluation rubric support student success. A user-friendly ePortfolio platform with social media linking features will enhance exposure of the student's work to key stakeholders during and after their academic program. If the ePortfolio is to have an impact on a student's professional trajectory after graduation, it should contain meaningful examples of academic work that can be shared publicly and allow updating of ePortfolio content.

中文翻译：

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学生在基于能力的临床研究计划中取得成功的关键 ePortfolio 功能和策略

背景

学生电子档案为教师、学生同伴和潜在雇主提供了一个互动空间，以查看学生的技能组合和反思表达。

教育活动

描述了在美国中西部一所大学的临床研究跨学科、基于能力的硕士学位课程中采用 ePortfolios。学生提交了他们的电子档案作为他们的最终评估。一项调查用于收集 2015 年至 2019 年间 104 名学生的客观和开放式回答，然后进行自愿的调查后访谈。比较了两个 ePortfolio 平台和教学方法。

教育活动的批判性分析

一个用户友好的平台增强了学生的参与度，并减少了学生和教职员工对 ePortfolio 要求的不满。37 名学生和校友回答了 ePortfolio 调查，5 名学生在调查后的采访中分享了他们的经历。学生描述了与他们的学术课程和求职相关的积极经历，因为他们完成了电子档案。然而，校友并没有强烈的动机在毕业后维护他们的电子档案。电子档案提供了学生在专业研究生学位中获得核心能力的证据。通过指导指南、示例电子档案和评估标准促进电子档案的创建过程，以支持学生的成功。具有社交媒体链接功能的用户友好电子档案平台将提高学生的曝光率 在他们的学术课程期间和之后为主要利益相关者所做的工作。如果电子作品集要对学生毕业后的职业轨迹产生影响，它应该包含可以公开共享的有意义的学术作品示例，并允许更新电子作品集的内容。