Development and Experimental Study of the Application of Web-Based Electronic Portfolios on Skill Training

[[abstract]]Skill competency development is most valued in the technical education. However, for a long time, teachers have encountered some teaching problems in skill training, such as not knowing clearly about students’ initial competencies, their learning processes, or even how to assess students’ final projects. The purposes of the study are to design and construct a Web-based electronic portfolio (WBEP) system. We hope the system would help teachers solve the problems mentioned above. The study will be conducted for two years. For the first year, the researcher will develop the WBEP system with the contents of the training program and the WBEP framework developed by the researcher. Then, the researcher will modify the features of the system after the formative assessment is performed. For the second year, the research will perform a summative assessment to evaluate the system’s features, its effectiveness of addressing the skill training problems, and its impact on technical education students in Taiwan.