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Educational Measurement and Evaluation

Notes 23.1 Concept of Portfolio Assessment

A student portfolio is a systematic collection of student work and related material that depicts a
student’s activities, accomplishments, and achievements in one or more school subjects. The
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. The goal is to help
students assemble portfolios that illustrate their talents, represent their writing capabilities, and
tell their stories of school achievement...

23.2 Need of Portfolio Assessment

In this new era of performance assessment related to the monitoring of students’ mastery of a
core curriculum, portfolios can enhance the assessment process by revealing a range of skills and
understandings one students’ parts; support instructional goals; reflect change and growth over a
period of time; encourage student, teacher, and parent reflection; and provide for continuity in
education from one year to the next. Instructors can use them for a variety of specific purposes,
including :
• Encouraging self-directed learning.
• Enlarging the view of what is learned.
• Fostering learning about learning.
• Demonstrating progress toward identified outcomes.
• Creating an intersection for instruction and assessment.
• Providing a way for students to value themselves as learners.
• Offering opportunities for peer-supported growth.
Identifying specific goals or purposes for assigning a portfolio is the first and most critical step
in creating such an assignment. Just as identifying a standard guides the rest of the steps of
developing an authentic assessment, identifying the purpose(s) for a portfolio influences all the
other decisions involved in producing a portfolio assgnment

23.3 Types of Portfolio Assessment

Process and product portfolios represent the two major types of portfolios. A process portfolio
documents the stages of learning and provides a progressive record of student growth. A product
portfolio demonstrates mastery of a learning task or a set of earning objectives and contains only
the best work... Teachers use process portfolios to help students identify learning goals, document
progress over time, and demonstrate learning mastery... In general, teachers prefer to use process
portfolios because they are ideal for documenting the stages that students go through as they
learn and progress
Self Assessment

1. Fill in the blanks :
(i) A ______ is a systematic collection of student work and related material. Which shows the
student’s activities accomplishments and achievements in one or more school subjects
(ii) A ______ demonstrate mastery of a learning task or a set of learning objective.
(iii) A ______ documents the stages of learning and provider a progressive record of student
growth.
(iv) ______ is to show growth over time, to help develop process skills, to identify strengths
and weakness, etc.

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