Recording and Evaluating Faculty Academic Aerformance: an Experience of Yazd Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences

The process of implementing a systematic and integrated evaluation program for the faculty members of universities needs svarious resources and methods. In this regard, a portfolio has been introduced as a tool that reflects the performance of the faculty members, and represents the activities and developments of teachers through the evaluation of educational documents. In recent years, the use of electronic portfolios has been considered in the medical universities an example of which is Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Accordingly, the document/electronic portfolio of the faculty members was developed which aimed at registration and evaluation process in determining duties of teachers at this University. The electronic educational portfolio was designed electronically which includes panels on teaching quantity, quality of educational performance, evaluation of documentation, research and technology, and executive-managerial activities. The results of the project can be used in the process of annual promotion, achieving grants, rewards and presenting performance and management report.

Software for Electronic Portfolio of Students of the Russian Higher Education

The purpose of the study. For Russian universities, the problem of choosing the form of the electronic portfolio and its software is relevant; ensuring the formation of the electronic portfolio of the student is fixed in the requirements for the electronic information and educational environment of the educational institution by the current federal state standards for higher education in Russia. The purpose of the study is to develop recommendations on the choice of software based on the generalization of the practice of using the author’s capabilities of foreign and domestic software to organize work on the management of the electronic portfolio by students. The study was made as another step in the author’s development of the conceptual apparatus of the electronic portfolio subject field.Materials and methods. The author of the study has been teaching and organizing the educational work of students with an electronic portfolio since 2007: from 2007 to 2019 at the Southern Institute of Management (first as the Head of the Department of Applied Informatics, then as Rector’s Assistant for informatization and electronic training), from 2019 at the North Caucasus branch of the Russian State University of Justice and Kuban State University as a lecturer of Informatics, Psychology and Pedagogy. Only in the 2020-2021 academic years, students of these two universities during the study of the author’s educational disciplines with cloud tools Google and P7 Office conducted about 400 electronic portfolios. The criteria for comparing the software of the electronic portfolio from different developers were elaborated on the basis of the author’s vision of the functionality of the electronic portfolio in Russian universities as a virtual office of students. To determine the forms of the electronic portfolio used by Russian higher education institutions and the software used by them, the author analyzed the documentation on the organization of the institution’s electronic environment posted on the official websites of universities in the country.Results. During the study of components of the structural model of the investigated problem, the author classified and considered portfolio software options and revealed that the most functional form of the electronic portfolio is an electronic portfolio in the form of an Internet site, designed and supported according to the “software as a service” model. The following criteria were added to the list of traditional criteria for comparing electronic portfolio software from different developers by the author: the availability (number) of training tools for performing training tasks with ecosystem tools, into which the portfolio is integrated, and the presence of registration in the Unified Register of Russian programs for electronic computers and databases. The author supplemented the recommendations on the choice of software for the portfolio of universities with the wishes of its developers and customers.Conclusion. A number of Russian universities continue their own development of electronic portfolio systems “from scratch” without taking into account the existing developments in culture. This circumstance, as well as the fact of the dependence of most universities on foreign technology platforms that ensure the maintenance of an electronic portfolio, prompted the author to show the possibility of creating an electronic portfolio system by modifying the P7 Office ecosystem of office applications, in accordance with the existing example of using Google’s online ecosystem tools for electronic portfolio management.

Mastering the technology of electronic portfolio by future tutors in the conditions of distance learning

The article describes the processes of organizing and implementing distance learning at the Institute of Pedagogy, Psychology and Sociology of the Siberian Federal University in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The process of mastering the technology of electronic portfolio by bachelor students of the training direction “Pedagogical education”, the profile “Tutor” in the implementation of the discipline “E-portfolio in personal and professional development” is considered. The possibilities of using the means of distance educational technologies in the process of studying by students of the electronic training course “E-portfolio in personal and professional development” are presented. The methods of organizing classroom (practical) and independent work of students by the teacher in the implementation of this course using distance learning technologies are described. Examples of classes with a specific description of the stages, the distance technologies used, the actions of participants in the educational process — students and teachers; the results of students’ activities to perform part of the classroom and independent tasks of the electronic training course under consideration are presented. The results of students’ reflection on the course which was organized using the forum are presented in the article.

ON THE INTRODUCTION OF E-LEARNING PORTFOLIO IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

This article discusses the essence and content, structural components, advantages of the electronic learning portfolio, which are considered effective pedagogical methods in modern education. The article also shows the results of the introduction of electronic portfolio in the educational process.

Experience of Using An e-portfolio In Clinical Practice at a Medical School

Background: The electronic portfolio(e-portfolio) is a useful tool for storing learning-related information, gathering and organizing learning evidence, and demonstrating student learning and growth over time. According to various studies, e-portfolio content criteria should be kept simple and adaptable in relation to educational aims. However, there is a paucity of empirical studies on whether the content composition of an e-portfolio as seen by learners using the real e-portfolio is acceptable. The purpose of this study is to determine whether the appropriateness of electronic portfolio content items and feedback affects self-reflection and learning ability in clinical practice for medical students who used an electronic portfolio.Methods: This research was carried out in 2020 with 40 fifth-grade students at Ajou University College of Medicine in Korea. The benefits and utility of e-portfolios were investigated in clinical practice courses in pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and neurology. Descriptive statistics, analysis of variance (ANOVA), correlation analysis, and a regression analysis were performed on the obtained data.Results: Satisfaction with neurology was the greatest among the clinical practice courses in pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and neurology as compared to clinical practice course using an e-portfolio for the first time. Self-reflection, learning performance improvement, and prompt feedback were all found to be more satisfying than in previous clinical practice courses. Furthermore, as the quantity of content items in the e-portfolio dropped and the faculty in charge rapidly provided feedback, medical students' satisfaction with e-portfolio usage increased.Conclusions: The number of content items in the e-portfolio decreased as the number of content items in the e-portfolio declined in the clinical practice course of the medical school; moreover, the faculty in charge provided timely feedback. This suggests that for medical students to effectively use the e-portfolio in the clinical practice course, a plan should be developed to reduce the number of e-portfolio content items. Subsequently, there should be a focus on the most important items while considering the unique characteristics of each clinical practice course. It also indicates that professors should provide prompt feedback on students' academic performances.

Using the electronic portfolio as a means of formation the foreign language communicative competence when training future tutors-teachers

The problem and the aim. Intercultural, foreign language communication is an integral part of the modern electronic learning environment. The professional competence of the future teacher as a subject of information interaction is manifested in the ability and readiness to speak a foreign language while performing official duties, in research activities, for self-realization. The authors propose to use the capabilities of the electronic portfolio for the formation of foreign language communicative competences of students of pedagogical training programs in the information educational space. Research methods. Theoretical analysis and generalization of scientific literature were used to determine the components of the foreign language communicative competence, the content and structure of the electronic portfolio. The method of pedagogization of the information technology, group interaction, assessment by external experts, mutual assessment and self-assessment are used for designing and scaffolding of the electronic portfolio with digital tools. The experiment involved 64 students of the Vyatka State University of the training program 44.03.01 Pedagogical education (bachelor level). The software is the Tilda service (https://tilda.cc/ru/). As a method of statistical processing of the experimental data, the χ2 (chi-square) Pearson test was used. Results. In the experimental group, future tutors-teachers used Tilda tools to determine the structure and content of the electronic portfolio (categories, sections, projects), which was subsequently provided for discussion and analysis by other students, external experts. The assessment of the levels of formation of the foreign language communicative competence was carried out and statistically significant differences in the qualitative changes that occurred in the pedagogical system were revealed, χ2obs. 2 > χ2crit0.05 (7,07 > 5,99). In conclusion features of designing and using electronic portfolios, implemented on the Tilda platform to present achievements in the foreign language communicative, educational, cognitive, professional activity are summarized.