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Makale Özeti:
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In today’s world, educational establishments should follow and utilize technological
developments in order to improve the quality of educational activities. One of the fields
that technology can be integrated into educational establishments is evaluation. There
is a tendency of process evaluation in today’s evaluation field, and portfolios are
among these process evaluation tools. In order to provide a faster and easier process,
portfolios have been prepared in electronic settings and transformed into e-portfolios.
Moreover, in time, e-portfolios had to be moved into web to improve their efficiency,
and web-based-portfolio (Webfolio) emerged.
The aim of this study is to identify the qualities of products, which came up as a part of
webfolio application applied in primary education, and to determine the use of
webfolios both by students and teachers. In this study, which aims to determine how
effective webfolios are, one of the qualitative research designs, Natural Inquiry
Approach was preferred. In this study, one of the purposeful sampling methods,
criterion sampling was used was held in a private school connected to National
Education Directorate of Eskisehir in 2008-2009 academic year spring term.
Webfolios prepared by students, assignments given by the teacher, and other digital
data available in webfolio system were used as data collection tools. When student
webfolios were examined concerning their quality, most webfolios prepared by the
students were found to be qualified enough in terms of readability, authenticity,
timeliness, and the use of media sources. However, most of the student webfolios do
not have a systematic design.
The assignments given by the teacher was determined to be readable, clear, and has
no misspelling.
It was also observed that the teacher urged students to deliver their webfolios in time,
suggested the use of class book and the Internet. Students, in their webfolios,
preferred using text, picture and tables, but did not prefer to use video sources.
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