Description
The present study, designated “O e-Portefólio como ferramenta de ensino, aprendizagem e avaliação na disciplina de instrumento dos cursos básico e secundário de música” (The e-portfolio as a teaching, learning and assessment tool within the subject of instrument of the basic and secondary level course in music) is inserted in the problematic of learning assessment and pedagogical practices’ improvement in this technological era. Thereby, it investigates music if the use of a e-Portfolio (e-P) model, in fact, can improve the quality of learning in the subject of instrument. With this purpose, during the academic year of 2015/2016, this tool (e-P) was developed by fourteen students of three instrument classes (recorder, flute and oboe) of basic and secondary level course in music. This research, of a qualitative and quantitative nature was implemented at the Escola Artística do Conservatório de Música Calouste Gulbenkian, Aveiro (EACMCGA), during three months, over the first period of the academic year. The techniques used for collecting and producing data were: direct observation and monitoring of e-P, diary of personal registries, questionnaires surveys to participant students and the semi structured interviews performed to three indirect participants – instrument teachers (n=2), educators (n=4) and institution director (n=1). The instruments of analyze treatment and interpretation of data were: statistical analysis and content analysis of the answers to the questionnaires surveys, analyze of content of e-P developed by participant students as well as analyze and categorization of the content of interviews and diary registries. The results obtained in this study let answer the initial and guiding question: “In which way the e-P can improve the quality of learning in students of instrument classes of the basic and secondary level course in music?” according that e-P is a significant tool to for the development and improvement of all educational process, mainly through the higher level of students awareness about their progress, learning and assessment in instrument, being, therefore, one adjuvant toll to a more authentic and participative evaluation.| Period | 2016 |
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| Held at | School of Arts |
| Degree of Recognition | Master |