The design of ePEARL was based on research evidence on self-regulated learning, feedback from the field, and earlier versions of digital portfolio software, including the Digital Reading Portfolio (Level 1), the CSLP's e-portfolio, and the APOM e-portfolio. ePEARL is the result of a concerted effort from a whole bunch of people!

Our multi-disciplinary team consists of: Dr. Philip Abrami (Director, CSLP), Anne Wade (Manager, CSLP), Bev White (Director, LEARN-RECIT)

CSLP Designers: Catherine LeBel (Creative Director), Jonathan Castonguay-Harding, Jeong-Jea Hwang, Sebastien Rainville, and Mimi Zhou

CSLP Instructional Designers: Einat Idan

CSLP Researchers: Drs. Larysa Lysenko (Research Coordinator), Eva Bures (Assistant Professor, Bishop's), Vivek Venkatesh (Assistant Professor, Concordia), Roger Azevedo (CRC, McGill), and Ann-Louise Davidson (Assistant Professor, Concordia) . Also Rena Upitis (Professor, Queen's) is lead researcher on the iScore project.

CSLP Trainers: Vanitha Pillay and Quebec RECIT and English school board pedagogical consultants.

CSLP Testers: Ata Hatami and External testers Efficiens

Translator: Marie-Claude Plourde, C.Tr.

Consultant: Gilles Boudreau (IT, EMSB)

Special thanks to the following people for their invaluable input: the LEARN P-Team Portfolio Sub-committee; the RECIT and the English and French Language Arts consultants from the English school boards; and all the teachers and students from our research schools within our partner school boards in Quebec, Alberta and Manitoba.

We would also like to acknowledge the contributors to earlier versions of the software and/or to the project, including: CSLPers - Andrea Cooperberg, Elizabeth Meyer, Erin Comaskey, Ofra Aslan (Ph.D. student), Louise Deault (M.A. student), and Rachel Scherzer (M.A. student), Claudia Gama, Caitlin Bentley, Denise Silverstone, Vladimir Severgine, Lindsay Bernath, Micha Therrien, Jen Sclater, Ane Jorgensen, Kelly Morris, Iolie Nicolaidou, Benoit Danis, and Bruno Nadeau; as well as Stephanie Vucko (LEARN), Thomas Stenzel (RECIT-RSB), Carole Raby (RSB), Suzanne Harvey (Conseillère pédagogique en informatique au RÉCIT de la Commission scolaire de Saint-Hyacinthe), Martin Cloutier (Propage Interactif), Martin Fecteau, and Sylvain Pednault (Collaba). Former testers: Guillaume Jabbour, Tanis Saucier, Michèle Bisson, Megan Durlak, Melanie Perrett, Olivier Couture, Béatrice Chevez-Payes, Corinne Goss.

And most of all... thank you to our funders! The development of ePEARL was made possible by financial contributions from Industry Canada’s SchoolNet Program, the Max Bell Foundation, the Norshield Foundation, the Inukshuk Fund, Valorisation – Recherche Québec, Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC), Ministère de l'Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport du Québec (MELS), LEARN, the Canadian Council on Learning and the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network.

Terminology related to the QEP was selected from the QEP French-English Lexicon. (2007, April 10). Montréal (Québec): MELS. DPLA - SSCA.

© 2011 – Version 3.6. All rights reserved.  The software may not be used without the written permission of the CSLP.  Not for sale or re-sale.