This is the assessment of the students efforts, progress, and achievements. You might ask yourself why i need to build a portfolio. Portfolio assessment has a strong element of selfevaluation and feedback both for teachers and students. The use of portfolio as an assessment tool lahmer mokhtaria abstract. The contents of the portfolio and the assessment process have been defined and the first cohort of students to be assessed in this way has been studied. Many advocates of the portfolio assessment argue that this makes it a superior assessment tool because it is demonstrates learning and growth over an extended period of time. Throughout selfstudy and self assessment, the program administrator develops the program portfolio, which contains plans, documents, and records that provide evidence of program implementation of the naeyc accreditation criteria. In this connection i would like you to read the introduction of the source book on evaluation available in the website of ncert. Third type is an eportfolio use for assessment of students knowledge for the. Items from the collection portfolio can be included in the student showcase portfolio and the assessment portfolio. First, im going to share with you what is in the assessment pack. Assessment by portfolio is authentic, enabling you to assess a students realworld professional capabilities. A portfolio assessment demonstrates learning over the course of time rather than what a student knows a particular day. You can also purchase the parts separatelyjust the assessments or just the portfolio.
Although many variations of portfolio assessment are in use, most fall into two basic types. In other words, it is to determine whether there is a difference between the drawing and writing performances of the experimental group students to whom portfolio assessment. Student portfolios have most commonly been associated. Teacher observation, projects, essays, and other more creative ways of evaluating student achievement have gained a larger following within the classroom. The role of portfolio assessment and reflection on process writing. The content of the curriculum, then, will determine what students select for their portfolios. Assessment portfolio assessment portfolios, students. Purposeful collection of student work that has been selected and organized to show student learning progress developmental portfolio or to show samples of students best work showcase portfolio portfolio assessment can be used in addition to other assessments or the sole source of assessment. Department of elementary education, school of education, middle east technical university, ankara.
Begin with learning targets show examples give opportunities to ask questions provide just enough structure so that they can get started without telling them exactly what to do. This is an open access article under the cc byncnd license. The first version upper right had piano key buttons to interface with buttons on the wireless boards. Assessing by portfolio unsw teaching staff gateway. This portfolio will tell others that view your portfolio in the future your professional story. Portfolio assessment offers a conet 61 in the pages that follow in this portfolio, you will find the work that i feel represents my strengths in my written work from my junior year at hillsboro high school. A record of a childs ongoing development over time. But, if we consider assessing as gathering of information about someone or something for a purpose, then a portfolio is a type of assessment. These insights, along with samples of childrens work, can be used to create valuable portfolios. The portfolio assessment model described in this document distinguishes clearly between portfolios and portfolio assessment. Although the types are distinct in theory, they tend to overlap in practice. In order to assess the quality of the portfolios, we devised a rating. It can be the examination of the students selective works and documents that contributes to the students achievement of the academic goals. This article investigates the impact of assessment method, portfolio only p vs.
The portfolio does not replace the cv, but provides information at a volume and depth not found in the cv. Article information, pdf download for portfolio assessment in teacher education. Science portfolio handbook orange board of education. List of books and articles about portfolio assessment. Portfolio assessment requires students to col lect and reflect on examples of their work, providing both an instructional component to the curriculum and of fering the opportunity for authentic assessments. The author team working at the hong kong institute of education hkied over the last 7 years has developed expertise in portfolio assessment strategies. The portfolio has also been used for the assessment of student growth and personal and professional reflection pincombe et al. A portfolio assessment is often deemed an authentic form of assessment because it includes authentic samples of a students work. A knowledge, based model for classroom practice michael r. In order that you may see the overall picture, i have included expository, informative, and creative pieces in this portfolio. Are students receiving all that they need and desire out of the portfolio. If carefully assembled, portfolios become an intersection of instruction and assessment.
This study aimed to find out the effects of portfolio assessment on reading, listening and writing skills of students who enrolled in a secondary school language preparatory class and to analyze the opinions of. Explain to students what is involved in doing a portfolio. A positivist approach to portfolio assessment is probably the most common approach, with a belief that it should be possible to reach one ideal, objective assessment of a portfolio through appropriate training of assessors and construction of clear guidelines johnston, 2004. Portfolios allow learners to integrate their learning of a wide range of personal, professional and academic capabilities, both inside and outside the study program, and show that they can apply their knowledge and skills to their. These may vary with differing curriculum and degree of learning. You can open, read, edit, and format each component file independently of the other component files in the pdf. There are a variety of methods that can be used for assessment of, for and as learning. Perhaps there is no single method of assessment which is complete.
Beacon, a public alternative school, soon became a national model for advocates of what modern educators call portfolio assessment. Article pdf available in journal of turkish science education 42 january 2007 with. Critics of portfolio assessment like the emphasis on demonstrated writing skills but argue that there is a lack of traditional tests of factual recall. Kanes argumentbased validation framework provided the. It is a way of you keeping up with your accomplishments. The purpose of this study was to empirically investigate the validity and reliability of portfolio assessment in two u.
Although portfolios are used in the assessment of students performance in nowadays, they are used as a method by architects, painters, photographers and artists in showing their works. Using portfolios of student work in instruction and assessment. Below weve gathered 12 of what we consider must read articles about assessment. It is still a question that how a teacher can apply alternative assessment methods properly without having enough knowledge and experience about it. A portfolio is a longterm form of self reflection and assessment that students do together with their peers, teachers and school community, via commentary and feedback. Richard blackbourn dean college of education mississippi state university bobby papason, co director. The use of a portfolio to enhance authentic assessment among in. Through selfreflection on their educational and professional experiences, students develop a clinical portfolio that comprehensively illustrates their ability to apply the nursing process and make clinical decisions in practice. However, as portfolio has been used for different purposes it maybe different from than that of artists.
Although the portfolio assessment model described here is adaptable for other educational settings, the. Portfolio risk management rural finance and investment. Because of this reason, portfolio assessment method as an alternative one to traditional assessment approaches becomes quite significant. Portfolio assessment has been developed for this purpose and has been adopted for the summative assessment of students in their final examination in dundee. The collection must include student participation in selecting contents the criteria for selection the criteria for judging merit and evidence of student selfreflection. In a portfolio assessment, students present essays, cases, projects and other works developed over a particular class, grade level or throughout their entire middle school or high school career.
The following sections describe six assessment tools and strategies shown to impact teaching and learning as well as help teachers foster a 21st century learning environment in their classrooms. Portfolio assessment and standard classroom tests are distinct ways to measure a students academic progress. The role of portfolio assessment and reflection on process. Portfolio assessment in medical students final examinations. How i use portfolios in mathematics an algebra teacher finds an alternative form of assessment gives her insights into her students maturity and motivation for learning. In assessment by portfolio both educators and learners are treading unfamiliar territory. Participants included nine experienced lower and upper secondary school classroom esl teachers who had utilised portfolio as an assessment tool in their classrooms. Working portfolios contain works in process as well as finished works. This article examines the use of portfolios as a means of assessing elementaryaged students. It has been observed that portfolio assessment is a useful system, which benefits the writing instructors, the students, and the whole writing program as it reveals to us the processes of writing and how it is evaluated w olf, 1989. A study on portfolio assessment as an effective student self.
Validity and reliability of portfolio assessment of. Display portfolios showcases students best work and assessment portfolios demonstrate the specific curriculum standards students have learned. While each type of portfolio has value, the portfolio assessment. These will quickly become a habit and result in more efficient, professional work. A portfolio is not just a folder containing student work but a selfselection.
Standardized assessment 1 a standardized test is any form of test that 1 requires all test takers to answer the same questions, or a selection of questions from common bank of questions, in the same way, and that 2 is scored in a standard or consistent manner, which makes it possible to compare the relative performance of individual students or groups of students. The use of portfolio to assess students performance. Describe the advantages of portfolio assessment for. This concept of student learning in elementary and secondary school is well documented. Summaries, keyterms, questions and problems are provided at the end of.
Teachers and administrators have been making a move from traditional paperandpencil type tests to alternate forms of assessment. Consider your recordkeeping needs and the purpose of each portfolio carefully before you begin collecting documents. Therefore, students portfolios enable teachers to assess student performance and learning processes gwodong et al, 2000 and to find out new ways to address students needs from their perspectives wald, 1999. Early childhood portfolios as a tool for enhancing learning during the transition to school sally peters, carol hartley, pat rogers, jemma smith and margaret carr university of waikato mangere bridge kindergarten abstract from 20052008 mangere bridge kindergarten in new zealand carried out a centre of innovation research. It is impossible to find an article that mentions self assessment that does not do it in the context of discussing portfolio assessment.
This article focuses on the use of portfolio as an assessment tool for learning in two malaysian secondary esl classrooms. For example, a pdf portfolio can include text documents, email messages, spreadsheets, cad drawings, and powerpoint presentations. The findings of the study revealed that portfolio assessment helped in improving students performance in map sketching and location, where the experimental group recorded higher mean gain scores. Naeyc program portfolio instructions for organization what is a program portfolio. A portfolio is a collection of a students work, experiences, exhibitions, selfratings i. Students are crucial instructional decision makers. The use of portfolio to assess students performance eric. Student selection and choice is vital in the process. Student portfolios as an assessment tool teachers and administrators have been making a move from traditional paperandpencil type tests to alternate forms of assessment. The primary function of an assessment portfolio is to document what a student has learned. These are not the only kinds of portfolios in use, nor are they pure types clearly distinct from each other. A portfolio is a collection of student work that can exhibit a students efforts, progress, and achievements in various areas of the curriculum. The advantages and disadvantages of portfoliobased.
Sampling student work when students maintain portfolios of their work, they learn to assess their own progress as learners, and teachers gain new views of their accomplishments in teaching. The advantages and disadvantages of portfolio based assessment are discussed and the parameters, guidelines, and the necessary conditions for implementing a portfolio based assessment. Twenty journal articles from the years 2006 to 2016. Marx 2001 supports this contention and suggests portfoliobased assessment as a viable means of individualized, studentcentered evaluation. Tracking students progress with portfolios scholastic. Portfolio assessment has been in use at various levels of education and foreign language teaching is one of them. Pam knight last summer i became fascinated with the possibility of using something other than the stan dard math test for assessment. Portfolios allow students to assume instruction and assessment. However, educators who use this form of assessment are increasingly faced by various hurdles, which are largely due to the fact that portfolio construction is more than the procedure of putting documents and artefacts together.
Portfolio assessment offers a variety of benefits, including. Some schools even use portfolio assessment as a basis for high school graduation. The main aim this research was to investigate the effects of digital portfolio assessment process on the drawing and story writing performances of the students. The purpose of this study was to introduce portfolio assessment method which. The files in a pdf portfolio can be in a wide range of file types created in different applications. Blackbourn school of education university of mississippi dr. Participants included nine experienced lower and upper secondary school. Its a huge collection of helpful tools, and i will show you exactly whats inside. Portfolios, a term derived from the carrying case of paintings or drawings that artists present as proof of their talents, are collections of student work. For the last two years, a consor tium of administrators, teachers, and researchers in the pittsburgh. Portfolio assessment has the potential to improve the complex task of student assessment, as well as to contribute to a more positive attitude toward the educational process. Portfolio assessment is the only methodology that responds directly to the goal of training students to assess their own success i bid. The original files retain their individual identities but are assembled into one pdf portfolio file. The original files retain their individual identities but are assembled into one pdf.
The paper first introduces the origin, definitions, rationale, applications and characteristics of portfolio assessment, and then historicizes writing portfolio assessment scholarship according to the evolving trends of portfolio assessment development in both the first and second language writing contexts. Drawing from the exploration of quality characteristics and evident educational outcomes, a refined definition of performance assessments is offered by way of conclusion to the article with the intent of providing some direction to current and future educators seeking to innovate assessment and accountability practices. They purposely cover a variety of different angles, from purpose to function to assessment strategies. Consequently, a districts program may include several different types of portfolios, serving several different purposes. Portfolio risk management block 2 measuring portfolio quality. Pdf the use of portfolio as an assessment tool in the. After the advent of the assessment reform in north america around the 1980s, learning became considered as evidence for assessment. The portfolio is a collection of key pieces that provide evidence in important areas of learning. The author team working at the hong kong institute of education hkied over the last 7 years has developed expertise in portfolio assessment strategies working with students to continue to adapt these strategies. Formative assessment refers to a large sort of strategy that lecturers use to conduct inprocess evaluations of student comprehension, learning desires, and educational progress throughout a lesson, unit, or course. In the process of validation, it is not the test that is validated but rather the claims interpretations and uses about test scores that are validated.
A portfolio is a purposeful collection of student work that exhibits that exhibits the students efforts, progress and achievement in one or more areas. The important thing to clarify is what is the purpose of the assessment and then select the method. Portfoliotool for self evaluation of studentsfuture teachers. Challenges in producing a portfolio for assessment. Portfolio assessment is the collective term for the assessment of a students work. Portfolio assessment can be used in addition to other assessments or the sole. Alternative assessments semire dikli florida state university assessment performances are daytoday activities that can also be authentic and engaging demonstrations of students abilities to grapple with the central challenges of a discipline in real life contexts kulieke, bakker. Abstractusing portfolio assessment to enhance teaching and learning.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the creative. Effective portfolio assessment requires planning in advance and keeping records. The practices of portfolio assessment should be understood in the context that the above discussion has created. Student portfolios as an assessment tool education world. The implementation of different types of portfolio in the assessment. A portfolio is a selection of documents, work, papers and tests compiled over a period of time, which is used for assessing performance and progress. Romance florida atlantic university the goal of this chapter is to provide a researchbased perspective on the use of portfolios in classroom assessment for three interrelated but diverse audiences. Sometimes the portfolio is also evaluated or graded, but that is not necessary to be considered an assessment. Guidance for using student portfolios in educator evaluation. A pdf portfolio contains multiple files assembled into an integrated pdf unit.
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