[[alternative]]The Design and Application of Web-Based Reflective Portfolio

[[abstract]]Recently, portfolio is popular and fast growing in instructional environment. However, there are some difficulties when using portfolio in classroom, such as storing and managing data and developing scoring criteria. Moreover, using portfolio does not always facilitate students’ reflective thinking. To solve the above problems, this research establishes a web-based reflective portfolio system that focuses on reflective thinking. The research investigates the representation of the students’ reflective thinking in learning activities such as observing and evaluating others’ works, and writing learning journals. The research also evaluates the learning activities that affect students’ learning performance. The subjects are eighty students who took the course of Information Education in National Taiwan Normal University. The research uses quantitative and qualitative analysis method. Regarding to quantitative information, we analyze the grades of students’ products and students’ representation on reflective thinking problem. Regarding to qualitative data, we classify students’ learning journals according to seven level of reflective thinking which identifies by Kember et al. We also analyze participators’ process of reflective thinking activities. The results of the research are as follows： 1. In the web-based portfolio system, use of appropriate mechanism and activities, such as learning journals or self/peer assessment, can establish the portfolio that focuses on reflective thinking. 2. In portfolio environment, students only demonstrate reflective thinking of medium level. 3. The experimental group which adopts learning journal and self/peer assessment gets higher level of reflective thinking and better grade than the control group.