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Portfolio Assessment Reflection

Portfolio assessment is an alternative to traditional testing where students collect samples of their work over time and reflect on their strengths and weaknesses. This helps students identify goals for improvement. The quality of work, not quantity, is emphasized. Preparation is required to specify what content will be assessed and how. Itslearning software has tools to facilitate portfolio assessment, including working portfolios for assignments, assessment portfolios for evaluated work, and ePortfolios to publish results.

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Portfolio Assessment Reflection

Portfolio assessment is an alternative to traditional testing where students collect samples of their work over time and reflect on their strengths and weaknesses. This helps students identify goals for improvement. The quality of work, not quantity, is emphasized. Preparation is required to specify what content will be assessed and how. Itslearning software has tools to facilitate portfolio assessment, including working portfolios for assignments, assessment portfolios for evaluated work, and ePortfolios to publish results.

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PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT

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.

An important keyword is reflection: By reflection on their own work, learners

begin to identify the strengths and weaknesses of their own work (self-

assessment). The weaknesses then become improvement goals. In portfolio

assessment it is the quality that counts, not the quantity. Another keyword

is learning objectives. Each portfolio entry needs to be assessed with reference

to its specific learning objectives or goals.

Different schools may create different forms of portfolios. Some schools create

portfolios that are a representative sample of the learners' work, while other

schools use the portfolios as an assessment tool that can be an alternative to

classical classroom tests and standardized teacher evaluation.

Reflections

In portfolio assessment, the learners reflect on their own work. The reflections

should say something about why the learners have made the choices they have

made in the portfolio, and describe the method used to arrive at the final

result. If two learners submit the same work for assessment, the individual

reflections may make the difference. Even if a learner has failed with the

content presented in the assessment portfolio to a certain degree, he or she

might be rewarded for mature reflections on the work.


Preparations before you start with portfolio assessment

Portfolio assessment requires thorough preparation. Before you start with

portfolio assessment in a course, you should specify the extent of the content

and specify what and how much content is to be included in the portfolio. You

should also specify how it should be assessed. In other words, portfolio

assessment requires planning in advance.

itslearning and portfolio assessment

itslearning has a built-in function for portfolio assessment. The portfolio

assessment function is turned on by default when a site is created, but it is

turned off in courses. See the How-tos section below to learn how to enable the

assessment portfolio function in a course. There are three different types of

portfolios: working portfolios, assessment portfolios and ePortfolios. If the

portfolio assessment function is enabled in a course, a working portfolio and

assessment portfolio is automatically created for all learners. The working

portfolio contains ongoing communities, a list of community tasks, a log and

learning objectives. When the community is finished, the best items are

transferred to the assessment portfolio. You are allowed to categorize the

finished work in the assessment portfolio.

The content from the assessment portfolio is published as a part of the

ePortfolio. The users can decide for themselves if they want to include the

different assessment portfolios in the ePortfolio.


itslearning supports the use of learning objectives in connection with the

portfolios. The teacher can create these objectives. Another option is to import

the learning objectives from the national curricula. 

Working portfolios

If assessment portfolios are enabled there is a Working portfolio link in the

navigation tree when the learners enter a course. The Working portfolio page

has four tabs:

 Working portfolio: Here you can see an overview of all the elements in

your working portfolio. You are allowed to add elements to the portfolio

(files, notes or links), transfer elements to the assessment portfolio and

manage the working portfolio settings.

 Task list: This page allows you to add tasks you can do in the course.

When you finish one of the tasks in the list, you can mark it as

completed.

 Log: This page allows you to enter log entries. It also allows others who

have access to your working portfolio to add comments.

 Learning objectives: Under this tab the learning objectives connected to

the course are listed. You are also allowed to add personal learning

objectives here.

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