Portfolios for assessment
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Why have portfolios become a popular form of assessment, and are they a good way to assess learning?
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A discussion of portfolios as assessment tools, both for formative and for summative assessments, is discussed in about 431 words.
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Portfolios have become a popular form of assessment because they allow assessments to be made of a student's formative process, or show how students have improved their work over time. This is one possible focus of a portfolio. The other portfolio focus, which is perhaps the more common focus, is to assemble and display in a portfolio examples of a student's BEST work created during a class or a career. Portfolios can be physical ones, with actual artifacts enclosed, or digital ones, with scanned images/work, on a CD-ROM (usually).
Either portfolio approach is a valid one, either the formative approach to document student improvement over ...
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