PORTFOLIO-

BASED
ASSESSMENT
Portfolio-Based Assessment
● A Portfolio is a purposeful collection of student work that exhibits
that exhibits the students efforts, progress and achievement in
one or more areas.
● Portfolio Assessment is one of a several authentic and non-
traditional assessment techniques in Education.
● it is not a scrapbook but a purposeful collection of anything
worth considering.
● Comes from Italian word
“Portafoglio” – a case for carrying loose papers
A portfolios content maybe any of the
following:

1. Only the best work of students.

2. Evidences of individual student’s work.
3. Evidences of group work.
Purposes of
Portfolio
Assessment
 Purposes of Portfolio 3. Portfolio assessment gives a
Assessment profile of learner abilities in terms
of depth, breadth, and growth.

1. Portfolio assessment matches 4. Portfolio assessment is a tool

assessment to teaching. for assessing a variety of skills
not normally testable in a single
2. Portfolio assessment has setting for traditional setting.
clear goals. They are decided on
at the beginning of instruction 5. Portfolio assessment
and clear to teacher and develops awareness of own
students. learning by the students.
 8. Portfolio assessment
6. Portfolio assessment caters to promotes independent and
individuals in a heterogeneous active learners.
class.
9. Portfolio assessment can
7. Portfolio assessment develop improve motivation for learning
social skills. Student interact thus achievement.
with other students in the
development of their own 10. Portfolio assessment
portfolio. provides opportunity for
student-teacher dialogue.
Features and
Principles of
Portfolio
Assessment
 Features and principles of
portfolio assessment

b. A portfolio represents a selection

of what the students believe are
a. A portfolio is a form of the best included from among the
assessment that students possible collection of things related
do together with their to the concept of being studied.
teachers.
 Features and principles of portfolio
assessment

c. A portfolio provides d. The criteria for

sample of student’s selecting and assessing
work which show the portfolio contents must
growth over time. be clear to the teacher
and the students at the
outset of the process.
 Essential
Elements
of Portfolio
 Essential Elements
of Portfolio

Every portfolio must contain the following essential elements:

1. Cover letter “About the author” and “What my

portfolio shows about my progress as a learner”
(written at the end, but put at the beginning).
 Essential Elements of
Portfolio

2. Table of Contents with numbered pages

3. Entries – both core (items students have to include) and

optional (items of student’s choice). The core elements be
required for each student and will provide a common base from
which to make decisions on assessment. The optional items will
allow the folder to represent the uniqueness of each student.
 Essential Elements
of Portfolio

4. Dates on all entries, to facilitate proof of growth

over time.

5. Drafts of aural/oral and written products and

revised versions.
 Essential Elements
of Portfolio

6. Reflection can appear at different stages in the

learning process (for formative and/or summative
purposes) and at the lower levels can be written in
the mother tongue or by students who find it difficult
to express themselves in English.
 Essential Elements
of Portfolio
Students can choose to reflect upon some or all of the
following:
1. What did I learn from it?
2. What did I do well?
3. Why (based on the agreed teacher-student assessment
criteria) did I choose this item?
4. What do I want to improve in the item?
5. How do I feel about my performance?
6. What were the problem areas?
Stages in
Implementing
Portfolio
Assessment
Stages in Implementing Portfolio
Assessment
1. Identifying teaching
goals to assess through
portfolio

It is very important at this stage to be

very clear about what the teacher
hopes to achieve in teaching. These
goals will guide the selection and
assessment of students’ work for the
portfolio.
Stages in Implementing Portfolio
Assessment
2. Introducing the idea of
portfolio assessment to
your class

Portfolio assessment is a new

thing for many students who
are used to traditional testing.
For this reason, it is important
for the teacher to introduce the
concept to the class.
Stages in Implementing Portfolio
Assessment
3. Specification of
Portfolio Content

Specify what and how much have to be

included in the portfolio – both core and
options (it is important to include options
as these enable self-expression and
independence). Specify for each entry
how it will be assessed.
Stages in Implementing Portfolio
Assessment
4. Giving clear and detailed
guidelines for portfolio
presentation

There is a tendency for students to

present as many evidence of learning as
they can when left on their own. The
teacher must therefore set clear
guidelines and detailed information on
how the portfolios will be presented.
Stages in Implementing Portfolio
Assessment
5. Informing key school
officials, parents and other
stakeholders

Do not attempt to use the portfolio

assessment method without notifying
your department head, dean or principal.
This will serve as a precaution in case
students will later complain about your
new assessment procedure.
Stages in Implementing Portfolio
Assessment
6. Development of the Portfolio

Support and encouragement are

required by both teacher and students
at this stage.
Devote class-time to student-teacher
conferences, to practicing reflection
and self- assessment and to portfolio
preparation.
 Types of
Portfolio
Assessment
Working
Portfolio
• Consist of collection of day-to-day work
of students.
• They reflect the progress of a student in a
particular area of learning.
• Provides opportunities to growth through
self- reflection.
Working • Teachers can reflect on the effectiveness of
Portfolio his/her instruction through working
portfolios.

• It can be compared to an artist’s studio: the

notes, the half-finished drafts, the sketches,
and the completed works.
Working Portfolios may
contain the following
evidences: 1. Teacher-directed tasks
2. Teacher observations
3. Classroom activities
4. Self-assessment and self-
reflections
5. Relevant learning outcomes
Documentary • Collections of the best work of students
Portfolio assembled for assessment purposes
• Showcases the final products of student work
• Provide evidences that certain instructional goals
are realized
• Indicate students’ progress and weaknesses from
one learning area to another
Showcase
Portfolio • Purposeful collections of limited amount of
student’s work
• Usually finished products to display the best
he/she accomplished in a given period
• May contain art projects, essays, stories,
poetry, or research papers
• Reflect the curriculum goals of the learning
areas Show Portfolios
Advantages and
Disadvantages of
Portfolio
 Advantages of
Portolio
4. It can develop reflective
1. It can monitor the learning learning.
progress of a student over a given 5. It can provide documentary
period. evidences of learning to teachers,
2. It can show the student’s best parents and stakeholders.
work. 6. It can foster
3. It can compare the student’s best teacher-student/parent-child
work from the past to present. collaboration in the teaching
learning process
 Disadvantages of 3. It may create resistance on
Portfolio the part of the student.
1. It is cumbersome to 4. Time consuming to develop
collect and store portfolio criteria, score, and meet
entries. student.

2. It is time consuming to
make a portfolio.
Thank You!