Abstract

The objective of this study was to develop and investigate the effects of learning portfolio on airline service-majored college students. For this study, the learning portfolio model was developed and twenty airline service-majored college students who were 16 women and 4 men in their first grade were chosen as the participants. They were asked to set up their own goal, carry out, make a learning portfolio and make a presentation every 10 days for 15 weeks, among which mid term and final term were excluded. The data collected were composed of pre and post TOEIC practice test results which was shorten with 100 questionnaires, academic efficacy questionnaires and students’ learning logs. The results of this study have been obtained as follows; Fist, there was academic improvements in 20 students’ listening and reading comprehension ability after making a learning portfolio. Second, there were positive changes in academic efficacy such as task difficulty preference, self-regulatory efficacy and confidence as shown in questionnaire responses. In particular, making a learning portfolio contributed to boosting the students’ self-confidence. Further studies are needed to look into the effects of making a learning portfolio on other aviation-related major, on learning attitude basis of participants, and on teacher feedback involved in goal setting and presentation of portfolio.

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