Definitions Purpose Needs Characteristics What caution should be kept while reporting child's progress Kinds of portfolios What should be included in portfolio Traditional vs. Portfolio assessment Advantages Disadvantages

2. Name: Muhammad Munsif
Roll NO: MSF1900315
Topic: Portfolios
Class: M.Phil Education
Subject: Advance assessment and evaluation

3. Sequence of presentation
 Definitions
 Purpose
 Needs
 Characteristics
 What caution should be kept while reporting child's
progress
 Kinds of portfolios
 What should be included in portfolio
 Traditional vs. Portfolio assessment
 Advantages
 Disadvantages

5.  A portfolio is a collection of student work that can
be demonstrate learning and be used as an
effective assessment learning tool.
 A meaningful collection of students works that
exemplifies the student’s interests ,range of skills
attitudes and development over a period of time.
 It is a recording and reporting tool
 Compilation of child's work over a period of time

6.  Provides holistic picture of a child’s progress
 A portfolio illustrates learning. It is student's
personal reflection of what they know and what
they can do.
 Portfolio assessment
 Portfolio assessment is an evaluative tool used to
document student learning through a series of
student-developed artifacts.

8.  Portfolio assessment has clear goals. They are
decided on at the beginning of instruction
and clear to teacher and students
 Portfolio assessment gives a profile of
learning abilities in terms of depth, breadth
and growth.

9.  Portfolio assessment is tool for assessing a variety
of skills not normally testable in a single setting for
traditional setting
 Develops awareness of own learning by the student
caters to individuals in a heterogeneous class.
 Develop social skills. Student interact with other in
the development of their own portfolio.
 Promotes independent and active learners.
 Can improve motivation for learning thus
achievement.
 Provide opportunity for student-teacher dialogue

10.  To get the authentic information for reporting
 To maintain objectivity in reporting.
 To support evidence based learning
 To get the holistic picture of child’s behavior
(cognitive, affective, psychomotor)

11.  To provides progress over a period of time
helps to identify learning gaps.
 Helps to know strengths and gap areas of
child’s learning.
 Facilitates to design and devise interventions
timely.

12. E-Portfolio Concrete form
Soft form Folder
Computer/mobile Kept in classroom
Easy to share Seen individually

13.  Sample worksheets
 Creative writing: Poems, song, stories, narrative
 Reports on visit/activity
 Test Paper
 Art and craft work: Paper
folding,origami,greeting cards
 Projects/Assignments.

14.  Beyond classroom activities works
 Letters to friends and relations
 Drawing: Work at home, vacations
 Creating cards for Eid
 Collection of materials:
Stamps/Leaves/Photographs
 List of stories/books read by a child
 Stories/songs written by a child

15.  Clearly defined purpose and learning targets.
 Systematic and organized collection of
students products
 Pre-established guidelines for what will be
included.
 Students selection of some of what is
included.

16.  Students self reflection and self evaluation.
 Progress documented with specific products.
 Clear and appropriate criteria for evaluating
students products
 Portfolio conferences between students and
teachers.

17.  Actual work done by a child/children over a
period, hence to be analyzed in sequence and
logical manner
 Should not consider only test scores and their
average.
 Take in to account of quantitative and qualitative
information.
 Should not be biased in reporting.

18.  Along with grade remark should be analyzed.
 Strong point need to be highlighted
 Weakness gap /areas should be reported with
suggestions and corrective measures.

19.  Difference between traditional vs portfolio
Assessment

20.  Advantages of Portfolio
 Promote student self assessment.
 Promote collaborative assessment.
 Enhances student motivation.
 Systematic assessment is ongoing.
 Focus is on improvement, not comparisons with
others.
 Focus is on student strengths what they can do.

21.  Provides concrete examples of parents
conferences.
 Improves student’s cognitive ability to understand
their own learning process.
 Promote assessment of a wider range of learning
styles.
 Promote creativity, individuality and uniqueness in
the assessment of learning.
 Encourage student’s active involvement in the
assessment process.

22.  Scoring difficulties may lead to low reliability.
 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.