Sometimes the portfolio is also evaluated or graded, but that is not necessary to be considered an assessment. It often contributes to pivotal decisions that will affect students futures. First portfolio assessment matches assessment to teaching. Pam knight last summer i became fascinated with the possibility of using something other than the stan dard math test for assessment. As students judge their work using explicit criteria to identify strengths and weaknesses, they are monitoring. Assessment literacy is important for all teachers, especially for those teachers of nontested grades and subjects who do not have state assessments to help them measure student growth. Guidance for using student portfolios in educator evaluation. The portfolio may serve a dif ferent purpose during the year from the purpose it serves at the end.
A portfolio assessment provides an opportunity for a student to reflect on their learning, to self assess, and to formulate a deeper understanding of the concepts they are learning beyond a simple surface explanation. A portfolio is a purposeful collection of student work that tells the story of a students efforts, progress, or achievement. Assessment of student learning is a participatory, iterative process that. You can open, read, edit, and format each component file independently of the other component files in the pdf. 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. Assessment of learning is the assessment that becomes public and results in statements or symbols about how well students are learning. There is a closely related three aspects, and these aspects affect each other directly.
Project portfolio management ppfm is fundamentally different from project and program management. The purpose of this study then is to explore how ontario secondary school science teachers demonstrating leadership andor expertise in constructivism enact this framework when assessing and evaluating students. Determine student reflective guidelines and scoring criteria 6. Consequently, a districts program may include several different types of portfolios, serving several different purposes. The individual works in a portfolio are often referred to as artifacts. The practices of portfolio assessment should be understood in the context that the above discussion has created. The purpose of this study was to introduce portfolio assessment. Pdf on feb 1, 2005, margery h davis and others published portfolio. While the primary purpose of portfolios for most teachers is to engage students, support good curricula and instruction, and improve student teaming, some portfolio programs are designed to serve other purposes as well. A framework for portfolio assessment in the foreign. Portfolio definition the glossary of education reform.
An assessment of this form, such as one that requires an essay or a solution to a mathematical problem, is called a constructedresponse. Third portfolio assessment gives a profile of learner abilities in terms of depth, breadth and growth. Can a portfolio of a limited number of pieces accurately reflect student growth over time in mathematics. In this connection i would like you to read the introduction of the source book on evaluation available in the website of ncert. He is a former high school mathematics teacher and currently one of the editors of vector. The implementation of different types of portfolio in the assessment. The core purpose of teacher assessment and evaluation should be to strengthen the knowledge, skills, dispositions, and classroom practices of professional educators. Rethinking classroom assessment with purpose in mind page 55 and 56 reflection.
It must include student participation in the selection of portfolio content, criteria for selection, criteria for judging merit, and evidence of student selfreflection. This brief supports state leaders understanding of assessments by first classifying and categorizing assessments and then providing an overview of common terms used when choosing and utilizing assessments. Project and program management are about execution and deliverydoing projects right. Portfolio assessment has a strong element of selfevaluation and feedback both for teachers and students. Authentic assessment demands a demonstration of a childs achievement with multiple sources of concrete evidence, across all developmental domains, feature portfolios. There are a variety of methods that can be used for assessment of, for and as learning. 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. It is important, then, that the underlying logic and measurement of assessment of learning be credible and defensible. Teachers and administrators have been making a move from traditional paperandpencil type tests to alternate forms of assessment. 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. 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. With the notion of grading being separate from that of assessment teachers have a whole regiment of practical assessment tools that can easily be used to report on student progress without making assessment punitive by translating assessment results into grades.
Each entry in the portfolio has a purpose, and the purpose is clearly understood by all portfolio stakeholders. The more you and your children work with portfolios, the better youll become at important organizational skills. As an alternate assessment strategy, the portfolio provides students with the opportunity to select a progression of work to demonstrate knowledge of a topic. The information in the portfolio must be meaningful to teachers, students, staff, and parents. Roles and responsibilities 9 the skills required to perform key roles within e assessment 3. Working portfolios serve as a holding bank for students work in progress before it moves into a display or an assessment portfolio or is sent home with the student. The role of portfolio assessment and reflection on process writing. Teachers should convey to students the purpose of the portfolio, what constitutes quality work and how the portfolio is graded. This portfolio is a collection or a scrapbook of things that interest you. In contrast, ppfm focuses on doing the right projects at the right time by selecting and managing projects as a portfolio of investments.
This article presents foreign language educators with a framework for the design and implementation of portfolio assessment. This article focuses on the use of portfolio as an assessment tool for learning in two malaysian secondary esl classrooms. Some schools even use portfolio assessment as a basis for high school graduation. 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.
The decision as to what content to include in the portfolio should be dependent on the purpose and audience for the portfolio. For young children, portfolios may include performancebased samples. 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. Although the types are distinct in theory, they tend to overlap in practice. The structure, context, purpose and scope of this guide 2. Such assessments include multiplechoice, matching, and truefalse tests. It serves as a holding tank for work that may be selected later for a more permanent assessment or display portfolio a working portfolio is different from a work folder, which is simply a receptacle for all work, with no purpose to the collection. 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. If carefully assembled, portfolios become an intersection of instruction and assessment.
Rethinking classroom assessment with purpose in mind page 29 teachers also use assessment. Portfolio assessment is the collective term for the assessment of a students work. Should a student receive a grade for portfolio, or would this double grading work. Participants included nine experienced lower and upper secondary school. The purpose of the framework is to help teach ers understand the portfolio process, overcome the associ. Student portfolios as an assessment tool education world. The use of portfolio to assess students performance eric. Describe the advantages of portfolio assessment for. The purpose of portfolios portfolio content portfolio structure learning in the context of the portfolio competence in nursing reflection and reflective practice the portfolio in operation 300520 leeann heta, perioperative nurse educator secretary nsw ota.
A working portfolio is so named because it is a project in the works, containing work in progress as well as finished samples of work. Is the part of the portfolio where the writer presents his ideological stance on teaching andor learning. Assessment strategies and definitions providing formative classroom assessment is important for meeting student teachers need to assess students understanding of what they are learning and then use that information to adjust instruction. Many advocates of the portfolio assessment argue that this makes it a superior assessment tool because it is demonstrates learning and growth over an.
The rsn developed the assessment design toolkit to respond to state requests for help to improve assessment literacy among the teacher corps. The original files retain their individual identities but are assembled into one pdf portfolio file. Portfolio content supplied by teacher andor student 8. But, if we consider assessing as gathering of information about someone or something for a purpose, then a portfolio is a type of assessment. For example, a pdf portfolio can include text documents, email messages, spreadsheets, cad drawings, and powerpoint presentations. Tell the story of assessment and learning over time. Three main factors guide the design and development of a portfolio. This portfolio could be used as a stepping block towards understanding who you are and where you would like to be in the future.
Assessment is to provide insight to teachers not to punish students. Doc advantages of portfolio assessment joe zen academia. A portfolio assessment demonstrates learning over the course of time rather than what a student knows a particular day. Whereas standardized tests serve a purpose in education, they are neither.
A portfolio assessment is often deemed an authentic form of assessment because it includes authentic samples of a students work. Alternatively, an assessment can require a student to develop his or her own answer in response to a stimulus, or prompt. Assessment drives instruction a pretest or needs assessment informs instructors what students know and do not know at the outset, setting the direction of a course. The original purpose of the pilot project was to allow students to choose to either. Pdf the use of portfolio as an assessment tool in the. Student portfolio purpose the purpose of this capstone assignment is to provide students an opportunity to. Purpose of assessment assessment drives instruction a pretest or needs assessment informs instructors what students know and do not know at the outset, setting the direction of a course. Think about an example of assessment of learning in your own teaching.
Student portfolios have most commonly been associated. The important thing to clarify is what is the purpose of the. Assessment design toolkit us department of education. Portfolio assessment can be used in addition to other. Teacher observation, projects, essays, and other more creative ways of evaluating student achievement have gained a larger following within the classroom. It can be the examination of the students selective works and documents that contributes to the students achievement of the academic goals.
The four purposes of assessment by peter liljedahl peter liljedahl an associate professor in the faculty of education at simon fraser university. Feb 14, 2014 portfolio assessment matches assessment to teaching. The use of portfolio as an assessment tool international journal. The use of portfolio to assess students performance. This is the assessment of the students efforts, progress, and achievements. Introduction over the last several years i have worked with a number of districts across british.
A portfolio is not a collection of a students work haphazardly over time. Alberta assessment consortium portfolios used for assessment of learning purpose of portfolio prescribed by institution artifacts mandated by institution to determine outcomes of instruction portfolio usually developed at the end of a class, term or program time limited portfolio andor artifacts usually scored based on a rubric and. The primary concern in getting started is knowing the purpose that the portfolio will serve. When individuals hear the word portfolio, many different images come to mind.
A framework for portfolio assessment in the foreign language. The content is depend on student or teacher preferences, purpose of the portfolio, or instructional goals of portfolio is designed to reflect. Administrative contexts also influence the structure and use of portfolios. Assessment portfolios require students to continuously reflect and perform selfevaluations of their work. This goal serves to promote student growth and learning while also inspiring great teachers to remain in the classroom. Student perceptions of eportfolio use in continuing education learning environments brad wuetherick. Your portfolio will act as proof that you have real work to back up your resume. Use of e portfolios in assessment 37 selecting e portfolios and incorporating them into a. Fourth portfolio assessment is a tool for assessing a variety of skills not normally testable in a single setting for. 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. Perhaps there is no single method of assessment which is complete. A student portfolio is a compilation of academic work and other forms of educational evidence assembled for the purpose of 1 evaluating coursework quality, learning progress, and academic achievement. Is it possible to use portfolio assessment in conjunction with current math teaching practices. As jay block, president of the the jay block companies, llc, says, the portfolio is made up of professional recommendations that will help to confirm that the achievements and contributions listed on your resume are accurate.