Presentation by: Aira Villanueva

Browser

PORTFOLIO
ASSESSMENT
Paper Portfolio

Digital Portfolio

Page 01 12:01 PM
 What You Will Learn

CHARACTERISTICS

Contents TYPES

PURPOSE

IMPLEMENTING

CHECKLIST

ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES

12:01 PM
 Characteristics Digital Implementing
• Clear purpose
• Systematic and organized • Characteristics • Review nature of portfolios
• Requirements with students
sample of work • Advantages • Supply content
• Preestablished guidelines • Disadvantages • Include right number of
• Student selection of some • Examples entries
content • Include table of contents
• Student self-reflection • Include student self-
• Documented progress evaluation guidelines
• Clear scoring criteria
• Conferences PORTFOLIO
ASSESSMENT
• Advantages/ disadvantages
Planning

Teacher Evaluation Types
• Checklist of contents
• Identify learning targets
• Portfolio structure and standards
• Individual entries • Identify use
• Entire contents • Identify structure
• Determine content
• Written comments • Determine self-reflection
• Student–teacher guidelines
conference • Determine scoring criteria
• Identify learning
targets and standards
• Identify use
• Identify structure
• Determine content
• Determine self-
reflection guidelines
• Determine scoring
criteria

McMillan, J.H. (2017). Classroom Assessment Principles and Practice that Enhance 12:01 PM
Student Learning and Motivation
 a purposeful, systematic process of collecting
What Are
and evaluating student formative and/or
summative assessments to document
Portfolios?
progress toward the attainment of learning
targets or show evidence that learning targets
have been achieved.
meaningful collections of student work,
typically illustrated by presenting and
reflecting on different assessments.

McMillan, J.H. (2017). Classroom Assessment Principles and Practice that Enhance 12:01 PM
Student Learning and Motivation
 An effective portfolio has...

Clearly defined purpose aligned with learning targets, standards, and

21st-century skills.
Systematically organized collection of student work products.
High student engagement and motivation • Individualized student
artifacts.
Preestablished guidelines used to establish contents.
Some student selection of contents.
Student self-reflection.
Clear and appropriate criteria for evaluating student products.
Conferences held between students and teachers to review and
evaluate.

CHARACTERISTICS OF
EFFECTIVE PORTFOLIOS
McMillan, J.H. (2017). Classroom Assessment Principles and Practice that Enhance 12:01 PM
Student Learning and Motivation
 DOCUMENTATION
1
show student work that illustrates achievement,
Writing:
often aligned to learning standards.
These include the celebration or showcase
portfolio, in which a student selects his or her

TYPES OF
best work, what he or she is most proud of, or to
show results of a project.

GROWTH PORTFOLIO
2
PORTFOLIO
Selections of student work are collected at
different times to show how skills have
improved.

McMillan, J.H. (2017). Classroom Assessment Principles and Practice that Enhance 12:01 PM
Student Learning and Motivation
 Writing:
1

TYPES OF
DOCUMENTATION PORTFOLIO

McMillan, J.H. (2017). Classroom Assessment Principles and Practice that Enhance 12:01 PM
Student Learning and Motivation
 Writing:

2
TYPES OF
GROWTH PORTFOLIO PORTFOLIO

McMillan, J.H. (2017). Classroom Assessment Principles and Practice that Enhance 12:01 PM
Student Learning and Motivation
 Different Types of Portfolios

Type Description Examples

DOCUMENTATION Highest scored test

Highest graded paper
Celebration Shows student’s best work Best project
Shows levels of achievement reached Mastery of each
Competence in relation to learning targets competency needed to
do electrical work
Illustrates competence on completion History unit final
Project of a single task presentation Small-
group project on
identifying chemicals in
a water sample
Examples of writing that
shows improvement of student show differences in skill
GROWTH competence over time Drawings from the first
part of the semester to
the last week of the
semester

McMillan, J.H. (2017). Classroom Assessment Principles and Practice that Enhance 12:01 PM
Student Learning and Motivation
 ADVANTAGES AND DISAVANTAGES

ADVANTAGES
Promotes student self-assessment
Promotes collaborative assessment
Enhances student motivation
Systematic assessment is ongoing
Focus is on improvement, not comparisons with
others
Focus is on students’ strengths—what they can do
Assessment process is individualized
Allows demonstration of unique accomplishments
Provides concrete examples for parent
conferences
Products can be used for individualized teacher
diagnosis
Flexibility and adaptability
DISADVANTAGES
Scoring difficulties may lead to low
reliability
Teacher training needed
Time consuming to develop criteria,
score, and meet with students
Students may not make good
selections of which materials to include
Sampling of student products may
lead to weak generalization
Parents may find portfolios difficult to
understand

McMillan, J.H. (2017). Classroom Assessment Principles and Practice that Enhance 12:01 PM
Student Learning and Motivation
 DIGITAL
A digital portfolio (or e-portfolio) is a
dynamic, changing electronic collection of
PORTFOLIO
evidence, typically stored and managed
online or with software apps and programs.

can have the same purposes as a hard-copy

file, but it allows for some additional
features to further extend learning and
encourages individualized, engaged, self-
directed learning on more authentic
topics.

McMillan, J.H. (2017). Classroom Assessment Principles and Practice that Enhance 12:01 PM
Student Learning and Motivation
 From Paper to Digital

Inefficient Efficient
Collecting Enhancing
Predetermined Evolving
Establishing Creative
Teacher-centered Student-centered
Individualized Collaborative
Documenting Celebrating
Contained Accessible
Limited Unlimited
Cumbersome Flexible

McMillan, J.H. (2017). Classroom Assessment Principles and Practice that Enhance 12:01 PM
Student Learning and Motivation
DOCUMENTATION PORTFOLIO

EXAMPLE

Page 10 12:01 PM
GROWTH PORTFOLIO

EXAMPLE

Page 10 12:01 PM
DOCUMENTATION PORTFOLIO

EXAMPLE

Page 10 12:01 PM
 Determine Identify Physical or
Determine Content
Purpose Digital Structure

Determine Student Self-

Supply Content Review with Students Reflective Guidelines and
Scoring Criteria

Student Self-Evaluation Teacher Evaluation of Student– Teacher

of Contents Contents Conference

Planning for Portfolio Assessment Planning Por 12:01 PM

 Are learning targets clear?
Are uses of the portfolio clear?
Is the physical structure for holding materials in
a paper portfolio adequate and easily accessed?
Are technical resources and student computer skills
adequate for digital portfolios?
Are procedures for selecting the content clear?
Does the nature of the content match the purpose?
Are student self-reflective guidelines and
questions clear?
Are scoring criteria established?

Checklist for
Planning Portfolio
Assessment

McMillan, J.H. (2017). Classroom Assessment Principles and Practice that Enhance 12:01 PM
Student Learning and Motivation
 ✓ Are students knowledgeable about what a portfolio is and
✓ Do students know why portfolios are important?
how it will be used?

✓ Do students have the necessary technical skills to use a

✓ Are students responsible for or involved in selecting the
digital portfolio?

✓ Are there a sufficient number of work samples but not too

content?

✓ Is a table of contents included?

many?

✓ Are specifi c self-evaluation questions provided?

✓ Is the checklist of contents complete?
✓ Are scoring criteria for individual items and entire
✓ Are individualized teacher-written comments provided?
contents clear?

✓ Are student–teacher conferences included?

Checklist for
Implementing and
Using Portfolios

McMillan, J.H. (2017). Classroom Assessment Principles and Practice that Enhance 12:01 PM
Student Learning and Motivation
Thank You

12:01 PM