Portfolio Assessment

Portfolio =
• portare (carry)
• folio (paper)
Student portfolio (Venn, 2000, pp.
530-531)

• a systematic collection of student

work and related material that
depicts a student's activities,
accomplishments, and
achievements in one or more
school subjects
Student portfolio (Venn, 2000, pp.
530-531)

• collection should include evidence

of student reflection and self-
evaluation, guidelines for
selecting the portfolio contents,
and criteria for judging the quality
of the work
Student portfolio (Venn, 2000, pp.
530-531)

• The goal is to help students

assemble portfolios that illustrate
their talents, represent their
writing capabilities, and tell their
stories of school achievement.
 Student portfolio
• Not all portfolios are the same.
• They are created for a variety of
audiences and purposes.
• A well designed portfolio can offer
insight into the thinking of an
individual or group or become a tool
for assessment and feedback.
 Advantages of Portfolio
Assessment (Venn, 2000, p. 538)

1. Promoting student self-evaluation,

reflection, and critical thinking.
2. Measuring performance based on
genuine samples of student work.
3. Providing flexibility in measuring how
students accomplish their learning goals.
 Advantages of Portfolio
Assessment (Venn, 2000, p. 538)
4. Enabling teachers and students to
share the responsibility for setting
learning goals and for evaluating
progress toward meeting those
goals.

5. Giving students the opportunity to

have extensive input into the
learning process.
 Advantages of Portfolio
Assessment (Venn, 2000, p. 538)

6. Facilitating cooperative learning

activities, including peer evaluation
and tutoring, cooperative learning
groups, and peer conferencing.

7. Providing a process for structuring

learning in stages.
 Advantages of Portfolio
Assessment
8. Providing opportunities for students and
teachers to discuss learning goals and the
progress toward those goals in structured
and unstructured conferences.

9. Enabling measurement of multiple

dimensions of student progress by
including different types of data and
materials.
 Disadvantages of Portfolio
Assessment (Venn, 2000, p. 538)
1. Requiring extra time to plan an
assessment system and conduct the
assessment.

2. Gathering all of the necessary data

and work samples can make
portfolios bulky and difficult to
manage.
 Disadvantages of Portfolio
Assessment (Venn, 2000, p. 538)

3. Requiring extra time to plan an

assessment system and conduct the
assessment.
 Disadvantages of Portfolio
Assessment (Venn, 2000, p. 538)

4. Scoring portfolios involves the

extensive use of subjective
evaluation procedures such as
rating scales and professional
judgment, and this limits reliability.
 Disadvantages of Portfolio
Assessment

5. Scheduling individual portfolio

conferences is difficulty and the
length of each conference may
interfere with other instructional
activities.
 Features of Portfolio
• matches assessment to
teaching
• has a clear goals
• gives a profile of learner
abilities in terms of depth,
breadth, and growth
 Features of Portfolio
• a tool for assessing a variety of
skills not normally testable in a
single setting for traditional testing

• develops awareness of own

learning by the students
 Features of Portfolio
• develop social skills – interacts
with other students in the
development of their own portfolio

• develops independent and active

learners
 Features of Portfolio
• can improve motivation for
learning and therefore
achievement

• provides opportunity for student-

teacher dialogue
 Types of Portfolios
• Documentation portfolio
• collection of work over time showing
growth and improvement reflecting
students’ learning of identified outcomes
• Also called growth portfolio

De Guzman Santos, 2007, pp 70-71

 Types of Portfolios
• Documentation portfolio
• Can include everything from brainstorming
activities to draft to finished products.
• Includes the best and weakest of student
work

De Guzman Santos, 2007, pp 70-71

 Types of Portfolios
• Documentation portfolio
• It is important to realize here that even
drafts and scratch papers should be
included in the portfolio for they actually
demonstrate the growth process that the
student have been through.

De Guzman Santos, 2007, pp 70-71

 Types of Portfolios

• Process portfolio
• demonstrates all facets or
phases of the learning process
• documents the stages of
learning and provides a
progressive record of student
growth
De Guzman Santos, 2007, pp 70-71
 Types of Portfolios

• Process portfolio
• shows how students integrate
specific knowledge or skills and
progress towards both basic and
advance mastery
• useful in documenting students’
overall process
De Guzman Santos, 2007, pp 70-71
 Types of Portfolios

• Process portfolio
• contains an extensive number of
reflective journals, think logs
and other related forms

De Guzman Santos, 2007, pp 70-71

 Types of Portfolios
• Showcase portfolio
• shows/includes the very best
of the students’ outputs,
works and products; best
used for summative
evaluation of students’
mastery of key curriculum
outcomes
De Guzman Santos, 2007, pp 70-71
Steps in the Portfolio Assessment
Process (Venn, 2000, p. 540)

1.The teacher and the student need to

clearly identify the portfolio
contents, which are samples of
student work, reflections, teacher
observations, and conference records.
Steps in the Portfolio Assessment
Process (Venn, 2000, p. 540)

2. The teacher should develop

evaluation procedures for keeping
track of the portfolio contents and
for grading the portfolio.
Steps in the Portfolio Assessment
Process (Venn, 2000, p. 540)
3. The teacher needs a plan for holding
portfolio conferences, which are formal
and informal meetings in which students
review their work and discuss their
progress
- these encourage reflective teaching
and learning which is essential in portfolio
assessment
Elements of a Portfolio
De Guzman Santos, 2007, pp. 66-67

• Cover Letter
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Entries (Dates can be included)
• Reflections
• Summative Statements
• Appendices and Dates of Drafts
 End na!
Assignment

• Find one (1) Portfolio

Rubric and make your
own (1 only)