Portfolio Assessment
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The document discusses portfolios as a way to collect student work over time to show growth. Portfolios can include various types of student work and media. They have pros like allowing students to reflect on growth, but scoring them reliably can be difficult. Portfolios can be used to showcase student work and interests, or demonstrate growth with self-assessment. Teachers should establish a clear vision and intended audience for portfolios. They should also determine what types of student work and context will be included, and create examples to help students understand the portfolio process.
Portfolio Assessment
- 1. Chapter 9: Portofolis
- 2. What are Portfolios? Place to collect student performances over time Consciously selected examples of work that is selected to show growth Could be a collection of many different student performances OR can be single performance by different students
- 3. Pros and Cons Pros Students revisit and reflect on their growth Limited number of pieces of evidence can certify student learning Focus on self-improvement Cons Scoring that is timely and reliable.
- 4. Questions that surround portfolios Who owns it? What value is there in passing the portfolio along to the next teacher? How can we make sure that the sample is valid and reliable?
- 5. Uses for portfolios Showcase for student’s best work, as chosen by student Showcase for student’s best work, as chosen by teacher Showcase for students’ interest Showcase for students’ growth Evidence of self-assessment Complete collection of student work for documentation and archiving A constantly changing sample of work chosen by student (could change in response to different exhibitions or needs like applying to college)
- 6. Where will the portfolio pieces come from? Look at this list and see what else needs to be added .
- 7. Media: videos, audio, pictures, artwork, computer programs Reflections: plans, statement of goals, self assessment, journal entries Individual work: tests, journals, logs, homework, essays Group work: Labs, peer reviews, cooperative group projects Work in progress: rough and final drafts, show-your-work problems, science fair projects Performance assessments: designed to require students to produce core content and skills Prompts: Conventional open-ended writing questions
- 8. Evaluations—can be done by either teachers or students or both
- 9. Individual pieces can be assessment by…. Checklists, rating scales or rubrics
- 10. Getting Started….. How can I expand my assessment practices to include portfolios?
- 11. What should a student know and be able to do? The answer to this question represents a vision of what a student should know and be able to do. Creating that vision is one thing; helping students internalize that vision is quite another.. Of all the questions listed above, establishing a vision is perhaps the most important.
- 12. Who is the audience? List all the possible audiences and then figure out which audiences are most important. Is the purpose is to help students understand themselves? Or, is it to serve a evaluative function? There need to be some defined readers of the portfolio that will be receptive to examining student work.
- 13. What information will be collected in the portfolio? Will you collect some information, in addition to student work, that helped to put student work in context. Most of the teachers ask for some kind of self-reflection, where the student explains why a particular piece fits in the portfolio. The student work itself can have multiple components. Do you want to encourage the collection of multimedia pieces? Do you want to see works in process (rough drafts, early attempts at experiments) as well as completed works?
- 14. Create a Mock-Up Portfolios can be hard to visualize. For many teachers and students, portfolios only become clear when they see a sample portfolio of work from a student from their school. You might consider creating a mock-up by digitizing an existing student's paper portfolio. The mock-up need not be a complete; its purpose is similar to an architectural model -- to provide a visual sense of what the final version might look like.
- 15. Review with students what and how a portfolio is created It will be important to make sure you are clear about who selects the work that goes into the portfolio. You should describe the kinds and frequency of including work samples and self-reflections. Describe how frequently teacher evaluations will be done and on what pieces or if it will be on the entire collection.