Portfolio Assessment
A portfolio defense is a defense of the learning within a unit, demonstration of competency, or even term wherein the student co-designs how s/he will show evidence of learning and growth over time. This method can be used at all ages and developmental levels, and is a powerful way to support learners as they become agents of their own learning.
Introduction to an Exemplar Resource
Self-assess
Before you get started with portfolio assessment, consider taking the self-assessment 2Revolutions offers through their platform: Learn Next--A Toolbox for Educators to Transform Practice. The self-assessment on the left is part of a larger learning progression on deeper learning (it's on page 4). Click on the image to learn more!
Per Learning Personalized and YouTube: "One of the seven elements of personalized learning — Cumulative Demonstration of Learning — is a collection and analysis of artifacts over an extended period of time that demonstrates progress toward goals. How do we leverage technology to help assist in the creation, documentation, and reflection that provides evidence of the desired outcomes?"
Digital Portfolios
Learning Personalized posted this interview with David Niguidula in March of 2019.
"In this interview with David Niguidula, our conversation centered around three questions.
1. What is the impact of digital portfolios when it is seen as a technological initiative vs. a personalization or assessment initiative?
2. How do you get school stakeholders to “start with the end in mind” when imagining a portfolio? What does the process look like?
3. At the classroom level, what does it mean to create portfolio-worth tasks? How are students part of the co-creation experience?"
Introduction to an Exemplar Resource
Envision Learning Partners has developed materials that are licensed as creative commons: "The Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license means that you can use our materials, must give appropriate credit, and indicate if any changes have been made. You may not use the material for any commercial purpose. And you must re-share any adaptations under the same kind of license."
Click on the Path & Pace guide, the Virtual Portfolio Defense Toolkit, and the Student Planning Tool to get started. These three tools provide the basics behind structured portfolio defense processes that can be done in a virtual environment for anytime/anywhere learning. The Quality Criteria are a series of guiding questions that will ensure fidelity to the process in the areas of rigor, authenticity, alignment.
Visit the Performance Assessment Resource Bank for additional examples of Portfolio Frameworks.
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Voices from the Field: Mike Mohammad
Mike shares examples of how portfolios are used in his classroom, including videos with student voice.
"I have been a secondary science teacher for 20 years, 15 of those at Brookfield Central High School. At Central, I have taught General Science, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. In my classroom, I work to increase access, engagement, and expression for all learners by removing the barriers of legacy instructional practices. I am a Google Certified Teacher and Apple Educator and have been recognized by the Institute for Personalized Learning with their Trailblazer Award...Connect with me on Twitter @mo_physics"
Additional examples from Mike can be found here.