Contributions of the digital portfolio for the evaluative praxis in higher education

Abstract

This article presents a qualitative research of the exploratory type carried out with 21 masters students who work in different levels of education and in different areas of knowledge – always having as background, the investigation of possible ways for a critical, reflexive and transformative pedagogical practice and aimed to analyze the contributions of a lived experience with the digital portfolio as an evaluation strategy with Masters students in Professional and Technological Education in Network of a Professional and Technological Education Institution in Curitiba given in the first half of 2018. The data were collected from a questionnaire that allowed to perform the Content Analysis from the perspective of Bardin (2011). It is concluded that the Digital Portfolio promoted the opportunity for the development of an innovative practice for evaluation of learning, based on the construction, reflection and self-evaluation of the process, in fostering creativity, in establishing a partnership between students and researchers and in development of the autonomy of teaching and learning among all involved.