A portfolio is a collection of a student's work that is selected and organized to show student learning progress over time or showcase a student's best work. A portfolio can contain classwork, assessments, reflections, and other materials. It provides advantages as an assessment tool by allowing students to develop reflective skills and giving teachers documentation of student learning. However, portfolios also have disadvantages such as being time-consuming to create and store. There are different types of portfolios, including working, documentary, and showcase portfolios, that serve different purposes and contain various materials. Effective portfolio assessment involves collaboration between teachers, students, and parents using clear criteria.

1. Portfolio
Assessment
Prepared by:
Robbie Liza E. Caytiles
Marie M. Loria

2. A portfolio is a “collection of a student work that has been
selected and organized”
 To show student learning progress (developmental
portfolio)
To show samples of the student’s best work (showcase
portfolio)
It is NOT a scrapbook but a purposeful collection of
anything worth considering.
Portfolio

4. A Portfolio’s content may be any
of the following:
1. Only the best work of students.
2. Evidences of individual student’s work
3. Evidences of group work

5. 1. It can monitor the learning progress of a
student over a given period.
2. It can show the student’s best work.
3. It can compare the student’s best work
from the past to present.
Using a portfolio as an assessment tool has several
advantages.
These are as follows:

6. Using a portfolio as an assessment tool has several
advantages.
These are as follows:
4. It can develop reflective learning.
5. It can provide documentary evidences of learning to
teachers, parents and stakeholders.
6. It can foster teacher-student/parent-child
collaboration in the teaching learning process.

7. 1. It is cumbersome to collect and store portfolio entries.
2. It is time consuming to make a portfolio.
3. It may create resistance on the part of the students.
Disadvantages of portfolios:

8. Purposes of Portfolio Assessment:
1. Monitor student progress (formative)
2. Assess student achievement (summative)
3. Determine students’ grades (summative)

9. Types of
Portfolios
1. Working Portfolios

10. Consist of collection of day-to-day work of
students.
They reflect the progress of a student in a particular
area of learning.
Provides opportunities to growth through self-
reflection.
Working Portfolios

11. Working Portfolios
Teachers can reflect on the effectiveness of
his/her instruction through working portfolios.
It can be compared to an artist’s studio: the
notes, the half-finished drafts, the sketches, and
the completed works.

12. 1. Teacher-directed tasks
2. Teacher observations
3. Classroom activities
4. Self-assessment and self-reflections
5. Relevant learning outcomes
Working Portfolios may contain the
following evidences:

13. Types of
Portfolios
1. Documentary
Portfolios

14. Documentary Portfolios
– Collections of the best work of students assembled for
assessment purposes
– Showcases the final products of student work
– Provide evidences that certain instructional goals are
realized
– Indicate students’ progress and weaknesses from one
learning area to another

15. Types of
Portfolios
1. Show Portfolios

16. – Purposeful collections of limited amount of student’s
work
– Usually finished products to display the best he/she
accomplished in a given period
– May contain art projects, essays, stories, poetry, or
research papers
– Reflect the curriculum goals of the learning areas
Show Portfolios

17. Key Elements in Portfolio
Assessment
– A good portfolio assessment involves teachers, students, and
parents
– Should specify a variety of materials systematically arranged
and organized
– Criteria should be identified
– Students should be required to evaluate portfolios periodically
– The school should schedule portfolio evaluation conference

18. Questions in Portfolio-
making
1. What is the purpose in making a portfolio?
2. Who should make the portfolio?
3. How long will it take to assemble the entries in a
portfolio?
4. How will it take to assemble the entries in a portfolio?

19. 5. What entries will be included in the portfolio?
6. What criteria should be used to evaluate a
portfolio?
7. What conclusions can be made as he result of
the construction of the portfolio?
8. How can we summarize evaluative data in a
portfolio?
Questions in Portfolio-
making

20. Developmental vs.
Showcase Portfolio

21. Developmental
Portfolio

22. –aims to present the learning
process of a student
–used during instruction
Developmental Portfolio

23. Showcase
Portfolio

24. –provides samples of a student’s
performance at the end of the
instructional program
Showcase Portfolio

25. Portfolio Process
Set Goals
Collect
Select
Reflect
Exhibit
Confer
Reflect