Portfolios are purposeful collections of student work that demonstrate their progress and achievements. They involve students in selecting portfolio contents and reflecting on their work. Portfolios can be summative, demonstrating learning outcomes, or formative, demonstrating learning processes. They are used for assessment, self-assessment, and reporting student progress to parents. Portfolios contain student work samples and reflections that are assessed against learning standards to track student achievement over time.

2. • A purposeful collection of student
work that exhibits the student’s
efforts, 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.

3. • Encourage active student involvement and
invite students to apply known principles
and generalizations to new problems and
situations; to think creatively; to gain skills
in using materials, tools, and technology
germane to the subject; and to prepare for
transfer, graduate school, or employment.
They also commit students to personal
achievement (empowerment) and
encourage them to develop realistic self-
evaluative skills.

5. • portfolio assessment as a process of
different progressive stages:
a. Collection of artefacts and materials
b. Selection
c. Reflection and Projection
d. d. Connection of the portfolio to
students' needs and/or the outside
world

6. • Portfolios are either summative
or formative, summative
portfolios demonstrate learning
outcomes while formative
portfolios demonstrate learning
processes.

7. • Assessment based on the systematic collection of
learner work (such as written assignments, drafts,
artwork, and presentations) that represents
competencies, exemplary work, or the learner's
developmental progress. In addition to examples of
their work, most portfolios include reflective
statements prepared by learners. Portfolios are
assessed for evidence of learner achievement with
respect to established learning outcomes and
standards.

8. • Portfolio assessment is an
assessment form that learners do
together with their teachers, and is
an alternative to the classic
classroom test. The portfolio
contains samples of the learner's
work and shows growth over time.

9. • A portfolio is a collection of
students’ work over a period of
time. It could be day-to-day work or
selection of the learner’s best piece
of work. Think of a file which
contains whatever a child has
written for one year.

10. • Portfolios can be organized by developmental
category, content area, or by topics or themes.
Portfolios have three main purposes:
– Assessment and evaluation, assessing progress,
achievement, developmental strengths, and
areas for continued work.
– Self-assessment and reflection, where students
can chart their progress and take ownership of
their learning.
– Can be used as a means for reporting progress,
in which progress and achievement can be
shown to parents.

11. • Portfolio-based assessment was
designed as an evaluation that
centers around each individual
student. A collection of a student’s
work over a period of time. They are
used as a performance-based
assessment tool to demonstrate
what the student is learning and to
track their progress.