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E-portfolios in practice

The focus on e-portfolios in digital testing and assessment is growing with the rise of programmatic testing. An e-portfolio is a means of tracking student development and recording learning outcomes and competences. We surveyed the use of e-portfolios at a number of institutions.

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In the publication 'e-portfolios in highereducation' (SURF, 2023), we describe that e-portfolios fit well with Lifelong Learning and making student development more central. It turned out that there are still many uncertainties to the use of e-portfolios in higher education. For these reasons, SURF's Digital Testing and Assessment Working Group decided to investigate this further at several institutions using e-portfolios.

The interviews conducted at different institutions have been developed into case studies in which they answer the following questions:

  • What functionalities are needed at decentralised level to support test learning with an e-portfolio?
  • How are the functionalities within the e-portfolio organised centrally, both technically (embedding ecosystem) and organisationally?

Through these interviews, we want to gain more insight into the use of e-portfolios at institutions and share this knowledge. We also investigate whether SURF can take actions to solve bottlenecks in the deployment of e-portfolios.