Vesna Gros, Renata Krivec, Petra Mikeln, OŠ Polje

At our school we have been noticing for a while that our students are quite unrealistic in their expectations and unable to plan their work and take responsibility for their learning. The main objective of the EUfolio project is to equip our students with skills for planning, monitoring and evaluating their own progress, which are the core principles of formative assessment. In the project we use the Mahara e-portfolio, an online application in which students can upload their blogs, files, pictures and videos. It also contains a forum; however, its main advantage is that users decide themselves which parts of their portfolio will be visible to other users. The most useful tool for formative assessment is the “My learning” tab, where students plan their work. Teachers can monitor and guide them towards their goals by means of constructive feedback. Students can also be critical friends to each other and evaluate their own work and the work of their peers. We will present what our students have learned in the past two years (from us and from each other) and what we have learned from them and from our colleagues.