What is portfolio?
— Portfolio is a purposeful collection of student work that tells the story of student achievement or growth. Portfolios are not folders of all work a student. (http://www.smallschoolsproject.org)
— A purposeful collection of student work that exhibits the student’s effort, progress and achievements in one or more areas. The collection must include student participation in selecting contents, the criteria for selection, the criteria for judging merit and evidence of student self reflection. (Paulson (Zainul, 2001))
How to assess?
- Assessment starting with decided criteria of assessment that has been agreed between teacher and student in the beginning of learning.
- Criteria of assessment that has been agreed should apply consistently.
- definite of learning based on the result of assessment
- Assessing in portfolio assessment is continuously
Weakness and Strengths
strenghts
Enrich system of work assessment
Give real evidence about the student’s product
Give information for standardized test
Give a note to student to do self-reflection
The way to communicate student’s achievement to the parent
Help the student to produce their best product in reality that purposeful
weakness
Used up much paper
Need much time
Spend a lot of money too
based on the information that I’ve got like that……
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