Okay, so imagine you have a special folder where you keep all the cool stuff you do at school, like your drawings, stories, and report cards. This folder is called a portfolio.
Now, imagine you have a lot of friends from different schools who also have their own portfolios. If you and your friends wanted to learn more about how portfolios can be used to help students learn and grow, you might form a group or club called a coalition.
The Inter/national Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research is a very big group that includes a lot of people from different schools and countries. They all work together to study how electronic portfolios, which are portfolios that can be stored online and shared with others, can help students learn better.
This coalition works really hard to figure out how electronic portfolios can be used in different ways, like to help teachers give better feedback, to help students keep track of their progress, and to show what they have learned to future employers or schools.
So, in short, the Inter/national Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research is a big group of people who study how electronic portfolios can help students learn and grow!