This information was originally published and provided by the bilingual education teacher. The important thing to clarify is what is the purpose of the assessment and then select the method. Formative assessment formative assessment is often done at the beginning or during a program, thus. At its simplest, a portfolio, whether in hard copy or digital form, is a collection of artefacts with a coherent structure and a guide to that structure, such as a contents page. A portfolio in the context of the classroom is a collection of student work that evidences mastery of a set of skills, applied knowledge, and attitudes. First portfolio assessment matches assessment to teaching.
A pdf portfolio contains multiple files assembled into an integrated pdf unit. Assessment portfolios require students to continuously reflect and perform selfevaluations of their work. Assigning a grade give clear guidelines to ensure that the portfolio consists of standard items displaying current achievement pick the best complete work demonstrating progress show changes over time, include various drafts showcasing student work only best work. He is a former high school mathematics teacher and currently one of the editors of vector. Even in primary classrooms and in university degree courses it is effectively used for many purposes. Wont that unrealistically inflate the grades of those weak students who try hard. You have invested a lot of time in mastering the skills of assessment design. For young children, portfolios may include performancebased samples such as art and drawings, photographs of block con. The purpose of the portfolio directly affects the process by which the portfolio is created. Combining elements of all these, portfolio assessment involves using the products in a portfolio as the evidence of learning for assessment purposes. A portfolio assessment is often deemed an authentic form of assessment because it includes authentic samples of a students work. Using portfolios for guidance and assessment p urposes.
Different studies indicated that portfolio could be used both as learning and assessment tools ersoy, 2006. Youve learned how to use an assessment blueprint to help you design assessments. Indeed, one of the strengths of portfolio assessment is that it enables students to be rewarded for efforts and progress, which traditional tests cannot do. Introduction to a project portfolio management maturity model. Winfield cooper is editor of the quarterly portfolio news, a publication of the portfolio assessment clearinghouse. Portfolio approaches to literacy assessment have been used throughout the 1990s, and they are relatively welldocumented. Some schools even use portfolio assessment as a basis for high school graduation. Assessment purposes of portfolio assessment essential elements of the portfolio.
Guidance for using student portfolios in educator evaluation. Third portfolio assessment gives a profile of learner abilities in terms of depth, breadth and growth. Focus is on evaluation of student work in its entirety and certifying accomplishment. The wide variety of information that teachers collect about students learning processes provides the basis. Assessment can be done at various times throughout a program and a comprehensive assessment plan will include formative and summative assessment. Portfolios typically are created for one of the following three purposes.
The primary purpose of assessment is to improve students learning and teachers teaching as both respond to the information it provides. Formal or standardized measures should be used to assess overall achievement, to compare a students performance with others at their age or grade, or to identify comparable strengths and weaknesses with peers. As an alternate assessment strategy, the portfolio provides students with the opportunity to select a progression of work to demonstrate knowledge of a topic. Robin alison mueller, educational development unit an eportfolio is most often conceptualized as a multimedia environment where networks of evidence are reflected on, synthesized, and presented in order to demonstrate and substantiate learning. Assessment of academic programs and student outcomes. Such assessments include multiplechoice, matching, and truefalse tests. The four purposes of assessment by peter liljedahl peter liljedahl an associate professor in the faculty of education at simon fraser university. Purposes of assessment underlying principles of assessment.
You have learned about the purposes of assessment, five elements of assessment design, the three different types of assessment items and portfolio assessments. The point at which the assessment occurs in a program distinguishes these two categories of assessment. Assessment for learning in assessment for learning, teachers use assessment as an investigable tool to find out as much as they can about what their students know and can do, and what confusions, preconceptions, or gaps they might have. Promotes teacher reflection and ownership over the learning process. Whereas standardized tests serve a purpose in education, they are neither. While each type of portfolio has value, the portfolio assessment has many advantages for students. Although the types are distinct in theory, they tend to overlap in practice. Students are crucial instructional decision makers. In portfolio assessment students are given credit for effort and improvement. Controls are put in place, which ensure the legitimate exercise of authority and decision. The original files retain their individual identities but are assembled. Grant wiggins and jay mctighe, authors of the popular understanding by design, define a portfolio as a representative collection of ones work.
Given the wide variety of assessment purposes and uses, many of the terms commonly used to describe assessments can have different meanings when used in different contexts. Project portfolio methodology includes a set of governance principles that provides a governance framework or structure. So, portfolios are frequently included with other types of authentic assessments because they move away from telling a students story though test scores and, instead, focus on a meaningful collection of student performance and meaningful. Especially it can be used for instructional purposes, assessment purposes, administrative purposes and certification purposes. Portfolios provide an excellent vehicle for consideration of process and the development of related skills.
Pdf on feb 1, 2005, margery h davis and others published portfolio assessment find, read. Each example has brief descriptions of how the assessment strategy was developed and used to improve student learning. An assessment of this form, such as one that requires an essay or a solution to a mathematical problem, is called a constructedresponse. As suggested by birgin and baki 2007, portfolio assessment enables learners to display their weak and robust domain and to observe their progress through their learning process, enabling them. These will quickly become a habit and result in more efficient, professional work.
Davis and ponnamperuma 2005, for example, hold that portfolios, as a method of learning and assessment, can enhance critical thinking, learner responsibility, interaction between tutor and. The purpose of this study was to introduce portfolio assessment method which. Portfolio assessment is a type of performance assessment that refers to the purposeful collection of a childs work documenting the childs effort, progress, or achievement over time. Nonmatriculated visiting students are eligible to participate in the portfolio program and are strongly advised to obtain prior permission from their home institutions regarding eligibility of the portfolio credit for transfer purposes. Assessment for learning is an ongoing process that arises out of the interaction between teaching and learning. Portfolio assessment has a strong element of selfevaluation and feedback both for teachers and students. Researchers and educators use the term performancebased. Portfolio assessment is a term with many meanings, and it is a process that can serve a variety of purposes. The content is depend on student or teacher preferences, purpose of the portfolio, or instructional goals of portfolio is designed to reflect. Jun 30, 2014 peer assessment analysis and constructive, supportive criticism of strategies, styles, and other concrete aspects of the product. Teachers should convey to students the purpose of the portfolio, what constitutes quality work and how the portfolio is graded. Office of academic assessment, northern arizona university this site includes models and examples of simple strategies for meeting several key assessment purposes. Introduction over the last several years i have worked with a number of districts across british.
Effective portfolio assessment requires planning in advance and keeping records. They note that a portfolio documents a students work and this documentation has three purposes. As such, the items in the portfolio must be designed to elicit the knowledge and skill specified in the outcomes. For example, a pdf portfolio can include text documents, email messages, spreadsheets, cad drawings, and powerpoint presentations. The files in a pdf portfolio can be in a wide range of file types created in different applications. Peer assessment analysis and constructive, supportive criticism of strategies, styles, and other concrete aspects of the product. The use of portfolio to assess students performance. Similarly, reeves 2000 suggests three main strategies to integrate alternative assessment into online learning settings. The assessment used needs to match the purpose of assessing.
These are not the only kinds of portfolios in use, nor are they pure types clearly distinct from each other. 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. The primary purpose of an assessment portfolio is to document student learning on specific curriculum outcomes. Assessing by portfolio unsw teaching staff gateway. Checklist of content portfolio structure assessment. Alternatively, an assessment can require a student to develop his or her own answer in response to a stimulus, or prompt. It also serves as an information exchange for people. Pdf the use of portfolio to assess students performance. It enables students to represent information in different formats and, depending on the software, take the information with them between schools. 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. Other purposes for a portfolio assessment include use as an element of an admission package, final exams and grades, and a means for students to celebrate their own accomplishments. The first issue to consider is the purpose of your portfolio, so we will begin by exploring some of the different purposes and then relate these to the design prin ciples and formats of different types of portfolios commonly used in education.
Student portfolios as an assessment tool education world. There are a variety of methods that can be used for assessment of, for and as learning. It also provides controls that enable and sustain an oversight capability, and outlines a definition of decisionmaking authority. The use of portfolio to assess students performance eric. A portfolio is a collection of students work over a period of time. Portfolio news provides 20 to 30 pages of articles, project briefs, and other materials by teachers, project directors, and researchers about local and state portfolio projects. In many educational programmes, portfolio is used for evaluating student performance. Consequently, a districts program may include several different types of portfolios, serving several different purposes.
Portfolios have long been a staple of visual arts assessment, but they also can be a valuable assessment tool in all the arts. They may serve a number of specific purposes in attaining overall curriculum objectives. Assessment for learning is an ongoing process that arises out of. It is very important to have a model for portfolio assessment as it will help ensure the portfolio is a reliable as a valid assessment tool. The teaching portfolio is best thought of as a documented statement of a faculty members teaching responsibilities, philosophy, goals and accomplishments as a teacher. The role of portfolio assessment and reflection on process writing. Advantages and disadvantages of various assessment. A portfolio is a collection of student work that can exhibit a students efforts, progress, and achievements in various areas of the curriculum. Assessment portfolio presents educational organizations with information about a teachers effectiveness.
An eportfolio can reflect the students learning process and progress. Although many variations of portfolio assessment are in use, most fall into two basic types. Characteristics of portfolios used for assessment purposes. Student portfolios as an assessment tool teachers and administrators have been making a move from traditional paperandpencil type tests to alternate forms of assessment.
It is a flexible document, and can be used in a number of ways, depending upon the needs and interests of the faculty member. Assessment portfolio assessment portfolios, students. It could be daytoday work or selection of the learners best piece of work. Informal assessments sometimes referred to as criterion referenced.
As a learning and assessment tool, a portfolio will normally comprise more than just the artefacts themselves and will include a reflective dimension. As an alternate assessment strategy, the portfolio provides students with the opportunity to select a progression of work to demonstrate knowledge of a. An eportfolio is an electronic format for students to. Technology enables the use of a range of media video, sound and. Developing portfolios for learning and assessment this book is a practical, accessible guide to implementing portfolio use for assessment and learning purposes.
Portfolio assessment portfolio assessment is a term with many meanings, and it is a process that can serve a variety of purposes. 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. Teacher observation, projects, essays, and other more creative ways of evaluating student achievement have gained a larger following within the classroom. What makes assessment for learning effective is how well the information is used.
Purposes and rationale for use in higher education compiled by dr. Pdf on feb 1, 2005, margery h davis and others published portfolio assessment find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. The portfolio assessment model described in this document distinguishes clearly between portfolios and portfolio assessment. Describe the advantages of portfolio assessment for. Also, the purposes of portfolio determine what kinds of items should be in it. The purpose of developing a portfolio a portfolio assessment is often deemed an authentic form of assessment because it includes authentic samples of a students work. The portfolio program provides students the opportunity to demonstrate collegelevel learning obtained through experience. Developing a portfolio assessment model for the teaching. It focuses specifically on portfolio use in educational contexts and moves beyond description and general principles to. While not exhaustive, a brief glossary of assessment terms that frequently lead to policymaker questions, and accompanying essa implications where applicable, follows.
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