JOVIELYN B.

BACALING BSED SOCIAL STUDIES 3B

ACTIVITY/TASKS:

Worksheet 1. Questions for Reflection

Name: JOVIELYN B. BACALING Year and Section: 4b

Date: Rating:

Directions: Answer the questions briefly and concisely.

1. Why should you assess students learning using the portfolios?

Portfolio is a type of assessment which every teacher used to collect students compilation of the
outputs. It is an alternative pen-and pen paper objectives to assess students, portfolio can be
useful in assessing youngster development on a certain skills that tremendously influence
learning processes. Thus, portfolio maximize the learning experiences through widen students
creativeness, ideas and knowledge to a certain things just lie, how they manipulate it and work
creatively to present their compilation. Portfolio helped children ideas beyond to organize their
work and see their accomplishment This type of assessing is the best work collection which
precisely no more than comprehensive overview of a student’s achievements, but in other way.
Portfolio can be useful method in assessing student growth on a certain skills that tremendously
influence their learning phase. Using portfolio we could assess student’s capacity in order for
them to work toward long-term goals. More so, portfolios keep each student to maximize their
learning experience through creating a creative portfolio as a multiple evidence of the process
product of the learning they have gained across time. Furthermore, teachers most likely use
portfolio because for them, it was easy to organize students work and see their accomplishment
through time.
2. What are the benefits of the students when you use their portfolio to assess their
learning’s?

Portfolio is a system, authentic and reliable evidence of their comprehensive growth in an

academic session. Portfolio shows learning artistic, creative, innovative, rational, comprehensive
and conceptual growth. Using the portfolio students can individualize the assessment. Some of
the students are not good test-taker and portfolios offer them an alternative to demonstrate
mastery of content. It helps faculty and teacher identify curriculum gaps, a lack of alignment
with outcomes. Promotes faculty discussion on students support services. Encourage students
reflection on their learning and the students may come to understand what they have and have
not learned. In addition, Portfolio offer students tangible evidence to show their academic
achievements as well as their participation in community service project.

3. What are the challenges that portfolio assessment poses to students as a method of
assessing their learning? What about their teachers?

In assessment by portfolio both educators and learners are treading unfamiliar territory. They
encounter problems such as resistance, non-completion and difficulties with evaluating the
portfolios and assessing the evidence. They also encounter problems such as resistance, non-
completion and difficulties with evaluating the portfolio an assessing the evidence. Similar
problems we experienced in an initiative where portfolios were used to assess academics in a
module for their professional development. Despite the many benefits of portfolio assessment
we can’t hide the fact that this method are also has difficulties that leads to a challenges since,
being a students it is given that we have a lot works to do, and we forgot to organized the things
we have some of the time we lose our data, paper works and other important things that needs to
be compiled to our portfolio.

4. How different the use of students portfolio from the other method in assessing learning?

Portfolio assessments are collections of students work rather than a specific kind of assessment
item. This assessment monitors the growth and development of students learning. Unlike most
assessment. Portfolio can contain many different forms of assessment as it is a collection of
students work. It is evident that portfolio give students feedback with the help of portfolio
assessment, students may reflect on their actual performance, identify the areas of strength and
weaknesses, track their growth throughout the leaning process and be prompted to take
ownership of their education

5. What do you need to do when planning for portfolio assessment?

In planning the portfolio, the very first and most important part of organizing portfolio
assessment is to determine the purpose of the portfolio, then identify the learning outcomes the
portfolio will address after that decides what students will include in portfolio and lastly, develop
the scoring criteria. These steps are important in planning for portfolio assessment. In this
connection, you as a teacher recognize the term organized assessment to youngster learning
phase, furthermore, it will help them to evaluate their own performances using compiling their
activities as their output after the subject matter