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Educational agencies in the United States are calling for increased accountability in teacher preparation programs, demanding standards of performance and allocating funds to assist students and teachers to meet those standards. Using new teaching and learning technologies, some schools of education are beginning to implement electronic portfolios as a means to document the meeting of standards and present evidence of quality. By using a common scoring guide, faculty and program administrators are able to evaluate the performance of individual students and programs as a whole. This study analyzes the pilot testing and implementation phases of the electronic portfolio (eFolio) system developed by Florida International University. Data gathered during this period has been analyzed by document analysis of email correspondences between the students/faculty and the development team, and observations made during pilot testing. Various technical and developmental issues identified in this process have been discussed