Abstract
The current systems do not promote active reflection by the students because learning and assessment are separated, which makes it hard for students to understand their learning process, and e-portfolios are not reused easily. To overcome these problems so that e-portfolios can better support learning and assessment, we developed a framework, which is defined as an accumulation grammar, to gather the evidence needed for learning and assessment using e-portfolios for every meaningful unit with a formal language. We then developed a system based on the accumulation grammar. Introducing the grammar should lead to a system that can manage e-portfolios flexibly, thereby keeping the accumulation structure at a desirable level by treating parse trees corresponding to the subset of the e-portfolios in accordance with the rules of the accumulation grammar. The use of this RefLASS system should lead to better support for unifying learning and assessment, understanding the learning process, and reusing e-portfolios, which should result in more reflection.
