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

Using ePortfolio in the modern teacher education for the new Russian school dedicated by professional standards and the adopted law on education. The new law on education adopted in the Russian Federation in 2012 and the States educational standards of teacher education made the revision of the educational results assessment methods at schools actual. The highest marks lost a priority for modern Russian society as a leading position. Assessment of dominant competences of pupils, demonstrating their ability in the development of productive collaboration in multicultural environments, 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 will become a part of entrance requirement for enrolling a university in future". And he explained that ePortfolio will contain the results of the final state examinations, average grade and other achievements of a graduate. A new teacher is demanded to modern Russian school. The modern Russian teacher has to be capable to consider pupils' individual requirements, to estimate not only their knowledge, but also significant educational achievements for pupils, to develop their competence in 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 fix various educational results and the process of formation and development of competences in their dynamics. Modernization of Russian education creates new demands for professional competences of a 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 educational practice, after carrying out the large-scale all-Russian experiment at schools and the development of the Ministry of Education and Science's recommendatory normative documents in Russian Federation. In a different way affairs at the level of higher education in Russia are where there is no legislation uniform on use of technology of a portfolio. In IEPS SFU within 7 years ePortfolio has been used 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's pedagogical direction, Psychology and Sociology (IEPS) of Siberian Federal University (SFU) over the long 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 are analyzed.