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An educational transformation, characterized by ICTs, programs that transcend national borders, and progress measured by acquisition of competences, is burgeoning. In this study, Spanish university students in a Preschool and Primary School Education Degree Program participated in an international service-learning project and used an electronic portfolio (ePortfolio) to document and assess the acquisition of the competences specified in the undergraduate education degree program. Participants completed a survey in which they evaluated how the use of ePortfolio helped them to acquire these competences. Though responses to the survey were consistently positive across all competences, a principal component analysis identified the following three dimensions, listed in order of eigenvalue: acquisition and use of ICTs, problem solving, and global considerations. Our results seem to indicate that both the key competences and subject-specific competences prescribed by the degree program in which the participants were enrolled, were indeed acquired. It is interesting to note, however, that the gains were in a proximal distal pattern, with global considerations being the component that accounted for the least variance among the three dimensions identified, though it reflects the transnational nature of the learning.
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Ciesielkiewicz, M., Bonilla, C.F., Santos Peñas, M. (2021). The Acquisition of Competences in Transnational Education Through the ePortfolio. In: Herrero, Á., Cambra, C., Urda, D., Sedano, J., Quintián, H., Corchado, E. (eds) The 11th International Conference on EUropean Transnational Educational (ICEUTE 2020). ICEUTE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1266. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57799-5_8
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