Portfolio

Portfolio Assessment

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2. are collection of student’s or person’s work. This is often documents, collection of drawings, photographs, and evidences of learning. Portfolio maybe used for evaluation of students abilities & improvement.

3. Advantage of Portfolio Assessment

4. Improves student’s cognitive ability to understand their own learning process. Enhances awareness 0f strategies for thinking and producing work. Creates documentation to submit to reliable audiences or reviewers. Promote assessment of a wider range of learning styles.

5. Promote creativity, individuality, and uniqueness in the assessment of learning. Encourage students active involvement in the assessment process.

6. ‘’Disadvantage of Portfolio Assessment ‘’

7. Require Additional time for planning instructional activities. Require considerable time for assessment. Time –intensive for instructors to implement since students lack familiar with portfolios. Requires considerable storage space to maintain portfolios.

8. May require special equipment. Students may need traditional evidence of learning for access, criteria, job placement, or similar events. Develop a grading rubrics or criteria takes a considerable amount of time. Performance data from portfolios is difficult to analyze.

9. TYPE OF ASSESSMENT PORTFOLIO

10. Documentation The goal of working portfolio is to highlight development and improvement. Documentation portfolios showcase `the process of learning by including the full progression of project development. Often, documentation portfolios will contain a variety of artifacts from brainstormed list to rough outline to finished products.

11. Process The purpose of process portfolios is to document all stages of the learning process. Process portfolios expand on the information in a documentation portfolio by combining reflections and higher –order cognitive activities. In addition to showcasing the student’s work, process portfolios emphasize meta cognitive functioning and encourage students to become active participants in understanding their own learning.

12. Product The goal of product portfolios ( also showcase portfolios) is to highlight a student’s best work by showcasing the quality and collection of students accomplishment. Since the focus is on the final product, there is no reflection on the learning process, But student’s may want a justification, explaining criteria for artifact selection.

13. Stages of Portfolio Development

14. Originally, Instructors need to determine the function, type and design of the portfolio. During the planning stage , Instructors communicate to the students the purpose of the portfolio and the assessment criteria. PLANNING

15. Students are the responsible for assembling meaningful artifacts that reflect their own educational progress . While it is not possible for students to collect documents. All their course work, collection can be facilitating by remembering the purpose of the portfolio, student’s personal goals, content of th e course, and evaluation criteria. COLLECTION

16. The selection stage is the decision making process in which collected artifacts are arranged and selected for addition in the portfolio. The purpose of the assessment and the kind of portfolio being developed guide selection decisions . While students are typically responsible for selecting their own work. SELECTION

17. This is considered as the most important step in portfolio development. During their reflection process, students justify their selection, highlight important learning gains, explain relevant skills and knowledge, and identify areas for improvement. To be most effective, students should be responsible for their own reflections. REFLECTION

18. In the connection stage, Students expand on their reflections to connect acquired knowledge and skills with lessons goal and learning objectives. The purpose of the connection stage is to add an understanding of the value of learning within the broader curriculum and the real world A key aspect of portfolio evaluation is the presentation of portfolios to outside reviewers . CONNECTION

19. ELEMENTS OF A PORTFOLIO

20. The personal statement should include one or two paragraphs highlighting relevant personal goals and experiences of the student in relationship to the goals and purpose of the portfolio. The personal statement should also summarize of the student learning and progress in understanding. Personal Statement

21. To ensure the portfolio functional and readable, include a table of contents with numbered pages. Table of Contents

22. The type and the purpose of the portfolio will provide guidance in determining the entries to e included. Required entries should be selected base on portfolio guidelines and assessment criteria. E n t r i e s

23. These may either appear w/ each entry or following all entries. Depending o the type of portfolio, reflection can highlight students thoughts in relation to their own learning, identify strengths/ weaknesses, examine progress , and provide self- assessment. R e f l e c t I o n