(608) ePORTFOLIOS IN TEACHER EDUCATION IN RUSSIA: PATHWAY FROM ASSESSMENT TO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

摘要

Using ePortfolio in the modern teacher education for the new Russian school dedicated byprofessional standards and the adopted law on education. The new law on education adopted in theRussian Federation in 2012 and the States educational standards of teacher education made therevision of the educational results assessment methods at schools actual. The highest marks lost apriority for modern Russian society as a leading position. Assessment of dominant competences ofpupils, demonstrating their ability in the development of productive collaboration in multiculturalenvironments, decision-making and life learning opportunities is becoming more actual. On June 10,2013 Minister of Education and Science of Russia Dmitry Livanov in his interview said: “ePortfolio willbecome a part of entrance requirement for enrolling a university in future”. And he explained thatePortfolio will contain the results of the final state examinations, average grade and otherachievements of a graduate. A new teacher is demanded to modern Russian school. The modernRussian teacher has to be capable to consider pupils' individual requirements, to estimate not onlytheir knowledge, but also significant educational achievements for pupils, to develop their competencein different spheres of activity, to be able to encourage pupils` teamwork, their creativity,understanding the future perspectives of their professional career. ePortfolio technology allows to fixvarious educational results and the process of formation and development of competences in theirdynamics. Modernization of Russian education creates new demands for professional competences ofa teacher, to his ability to use technologies of authentic assessment of pupils' educational results.Only for the last 10 years the technology of ePortfolio has been introduced in the Russian educationalpractice, after carrying out the large-scale all-Russian experiment at schools and the development ofthe Ministry of Education and Science`s recommendatory normative documents in RussianFederation. In a different way affairs at the level of higher education in Russia are where there is nolegislation uniform on use of technology of a portfolio. In IEPS SFU within 7 years ePortfolio has beenused in various models of teacher training of the modern teacher for various purposes: assessment,professional development and employment.The experience of ePortfolio usage in training of bachelors and masters of the institute of Education`spedagogical direction, Psychology and Sociology (IEPS) of Siberian Federal University (SFU) over thelong term of professional development will be presented. The results of the research of the bachelors',masters' and HR-managers' opinion on ePortfolio use which were obtained within the ERA.Net RUS-2013 project of "ePortfolio for Human Resources" and other researchers conducted earlier areanalyzed.