University Students’ Opinions on Application of Portfolio in Higher Education

AbstractClickThe purpose of this study is to determine opinions of university students towards the use of portfolio as a tool of teaching and evaluation in higher education. Also aimed to reveal if there is a difference of opinions in terms of gender (male or female), class (3th or 4th) and type of education (I. or II.) of the university students. This research is a descriptive research. The working group consists of 189 university students field of education in Kırklareli University Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department of Philosophy during fall semester in the 2013-2014 academic year. Portfolio application was carried out in the department of Philosophy at the 3rd grade “developmental psychology” lesson and 4th Grade “psychology of learning” lesson. Portfolio which was prepared over a period by students was evaluated and the obtained results have affected the students’ course grade. For the purpose of the study a form was developed by researcher to determine the students’ opinions towards the portfolio. The survey used as a measurement tool contains 18 items and in the form of triple likert-type like “I totally agree”, “partly agree”, “disagree completely”. The data obtained by Survey were analyzed by SPSS 17. For this analysis procedures, percentage, mean and t-test were used. According to analyzing results value it can be said that university students’ opinions regarding the application of portfolio are reasonably positive. No significant difference was found in university students’ opinions about portfolio application in terms of their genders, classes and type of education