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Unit 23 : Portfolio Assessment

23.4 Steps in the Portfolio Assessment Notes

First, the teacher and the student need to clearly identify the portfolio contents, which are samples
of student work, reflections, teacher observations, and conference records. Second, the teacher
should develop evaluation procedures for keeping track of the portfolio contents and for grading
the portfolio... Third 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. Because
they encourage reflective teaching and learning, these conference are an essential part of the
portfolio assessment process

23.5 Advantages of Portfolio Assessment

• Promoting student self-evaluation, reflection, and critical thinking.
• Measuring performance based on genuine samples of student work.
• Providing flexibility in measuring how students accomplish their learning goals.
• Enabling teachers and students to share the responsibility for setting learning goals and for
evaluating progress toward meeting those goals.
• Giving students the opportunity to have extensive input into the learning process.
• Facilitating cooperative learning activities, including peer evaluation and tutoring,
cooperative learning groups, and peer conferencing.
• Providing a process for structuring learning in stages.
• Providing opportunities for students and teachers to discuss learning goals and the progress
toward those goals in structured and unstructured conferences.
• Enabling measurement of multiple dimensions of student progress by including different
types of data and materials.

23.6 Disadvantages of Portfolio Assessment

• Requiring extra time to plan an assessment system and conduct the assessment.
• Gathering all of the necessary data and work samples can make portfolios bulky and difficult
to manage.
• Developing a systematic and deliberate management system is difficult, but this step is
necessary in order to make portfolios more than a random collection of student work.
• Scoring portfolios involves the extensive use of subjective evaluation procedures such as
rating scales and professional judgment, and this limits reliability.
Scheduling individual portfolio conferences is difficulty and the length of each conference may
interfere with other instructional activities.

What is portfolio partner ?

23.7 Aims of Portfolio Assessment

Why might you use a portfolio assignment ? Portfolios typically are created for one of the
following three purposes : to show growth, to showcase current abilities, and to evaluate
cumulative achievement. Some examples of such purposes include
1. Growth Portfolios
(a) to show growth or change over time

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