PORTFOLIO-BASED ASSESSMENT

Portfolio-Based Assessment
● A Portfolio is a purposeful collection of student work that exhibits
that exhibits the students efforts, progress and achievement in
one or more areas.
● Portfolio Assessment is one of a several authentic and non-
traditional assessment techniques in Education.
● it is not a scrapbook but a purposeful collection of anything
worth considering.
● Comes from Italian word
“Portafoglio” – a case for carrying loose papers

A portfolios content maybe any of the
following:
1. Only the best work of students.
2. Evidences of individual student’s work.
3. Evidences of group work.

Purposes of
Portfolio
Assessment

Purposes of Portfolio
Assessment
1. Portfolio assessment matches
assessment to teaching.
3. Portfolio assessment gives a
profile of learner abilities in terms
of depth, breadth, and growth.
2. Portfolio assessment has clear
goals. They are decided on at
the beginning of instruction and
clear to teacher and students.
4. Portfolio assessment is a tool
for assessing a variety of skills
not normally testable in a single
setting for traditional setting.
5. Portfolio assessment
develops awareness of own
learning by the students.

6. Portfolio assessment caters
to individuals in a
heterogeneous class.
promotes independent and
active learners.
7. Portfolio assessment develop
social skills. Student interact
with other students in the
development of their own
portfolio.
9. Portfolio assessment can
improve motivation for
learning thus achievement.
provides opportunity for
student-teacher dialogue.

Features and
Principles of
Portfolio
Assessment

Features and principles of
portfolio assessment
a. A portfolio is a form of
assessment that students
do together with their
teachers.
b. A portfolio represents a selection
of what the students believe are
the best included from among the
possible collection of things related
to the concept of being studied.

Features and principles of portfolio
assessment
c. A portfolio provides
sample of student’s
work which show
growth over time.
d. The criteria for
selecting and assessing
the portfolio contents must
be clear to the teacher
and the students at the
outset of the process.

Essential
Elements
of Portfolio

Every portfolio must contain the following essential elements:
1. Cover letter “About the author” and “What my
portfolio shows about my progress as a learner”
(written at the end, but put at the beginning).
Essential Elements
of Portfolio

2. Table of Contents with numbered pages
3. Entries – both core (items students have to include) and
optional (items of student’s choice). The core elements be
required for each student and will provide a common base from
which to make decisions on assessment. The optional items will
allow the folder to represent the uniqueness of each student.
Essential Elements
of Portfolio

4. Dates on all entries, to facilitate proof of growth
over time.
5. Drafts of aural/oral and written products and
revised versions.
Essential Elements
of Portfolio

6. Reflection can appear at different stages in the
learning process (for formative and/or summative
purposes) and at the lower levels can be written in
the mother tongue or by students who find it difficult
to express themselves in English.
Essential Elements
of Portfolio

Students can choose to reflect upon some or all of the
following:
1. What did I learn from it?
2. What did I do well?
3. Why (based on the agreed teacher-student assessment
criteria) did I choose this item?
4. What do I want to improve in the item?
5. How do I feel about my performance?
6. What were the problem areas?
Essential Elements
of Portfolio

Stages in
Implementing
Portfolio
Assessment

1. Identifying teaching
goals to assess
through portfolio
It is very important at this stage to
be very clear about what the
teacher hopes to achieve in
teaching. These goals will guide
the selection and assessment of
students’ work for the portfolio.
Stages in Implementing Portfolio
Assessment

2. Introducing the idea
of portfolio assessment
to your class
Portfolio assessment is a
new thing for many
students who are used to
traditional testing. For this
reason, it is important for
the teacher to introduce
the concept to the class.
Assessment

3. Specification of
Portfolio Content
Specify what and how much have
to be included in the portfolio –
both core and options (it is
important to include options as
these enable self-expression and
independence). Specify for each
entry how it will be assessed.
Assessment

4. Giving clear and
detailed guidelines for
portfolio presentation
There is a tendency for students to
present as many evidence of
learning as they can when left on
their own. The teacher must
therefore set clear guidelines and
detailed information on how the
portfolios will be presented.
Assessment

5. Informing key school
officials, parents and other
stakeholders
Do not attempt to use the portfolio
assessment method without notifying
your department head, dean or
principal. This will serve as a precaution
in case students will later complain
about your new assessment procedure.
Assessment

6. Development of
the Portfolio
Support and encouragement
are required by both teacher
and students at this stage.
Devote class-time to student-
teacher conferences, to
practicing reflection and self-
assessment and to portfolio
preparation.
Assessment

Working Portfolios may
contain the following
evidences:

Advantages and
Disadvantages of
Portfolio

Advantages of
Portolio
1. It can monitor the learning
progress of a student over a
given period.
2. It can show the student’s
best work.
3. It can compare the student’s
best work from the past to
present.
4. It can develop reflective
learning.
5. It can provide documentary
evidences of learning to
teachers, parents and
stakeholders.
6. It can foster teacher-
student/parent-child
collaboration in the teaching
learning process

1. It is cumbersome to
collect and store
portfolio entries.
2. It is time consuming
to make a portfolio.
Disadvantages of
Portfolio
3. It may create resistance
on the part of the student.
4. Time consuming to
develop criteria, score, and
meet student.

The main philosophy embedded in portfolio
assessment is “Shared and active assessment”. The
teacher should have short individual meetings with
each students, in which progress is discuss and
goals are set for a future meeting .
Student-Teacher
Conferences

Student-Teacher
Conferences
The teacher and the student keep careful
documentation of the meeting nothing
significant agreements and finding each
individual session. The formative evaluation
process of the portfolio assessment is
facilitated. Indeed the use of portfolio
assessment takes time but in the end it gains.

Finally, student-teacher conference can also be used for
summative evaluation purposes when the students
present his final portfolio product and where final grades
are determined together with the teacher. This conference
can be prepared in pairs, where students practice
presenting their portfolio.
Student-Teacher Conferences

What is a Rubric?
A rubric is a scoring tool lists the
criteria for a piece of work, or
“what counts” and clearly defines
range of quality for each criterion
from excellent to poor.
How are portfolios
assessed?
Rubrics are used by
students to self-
evaluate.

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