Portfolio helps students to join the class voluntarily and to build their creativity and high order thinking. Using portfolio in a classroom, students' academic achievement will be increased while the students plan how to study, solve problems, gather...
Portfolio helps students to join the class voluntarily and to build their creativity and high order thinking. Using portfolio in a classroom, students' academic achievement will be increased while the students plan how to study, solve problems, gather evidence by themselves and reflect their activities. This study investigated the influence of cooperative portfolio activities on students' academic achievement and perceptions
For this study, two classes of 4th grade in a elementary school in Buchon were selected. In a traditional group, students were taught by regular textbook and boserving experiments. on the other hand, in portfolio group, they were taught by portfolio activities.
Before and after experiment, students' academic achievement of both group were tested. To analyze the difference of two group's academic achievements and their sub-category (memory, understanding, application) spss statistics program was used. In addition, after the portfolio class, perceptions of portfolio were investigated in th portfolio group and interviewed students about their answers and analyzed each sentence per percent and frequency.
The result of this study is as followings.
A class using portfolio has an effect on students' academic achievement positively and experimental group's academic achievement was higher than traditional group. At the same time its result was higher in memory, understanding, and application than the traditional group. At the portfolio class according to the level, in high level portfolio group's academic achievement was higher than traditional group. At the same time its result was higher in memory, understanding, and application than the traditional group, in low level, portfolio group's academic achievement was higher than traditional group. portfolio group's was higher in memory but there was not much difference statistically in the part of understanding and application. Regarding the perceptions of portfolio, students joined the class positively and enjoyed making portfolio.
In conclusion, the academic achievement of students' taught by portfolio was much higher and students showed their perceptions of portfolio positively.