Portfolio - Part 1

Last week I learned about affective, cognitive, and psycho-motor assessment, but I also learned about portfolio assessment, so I wanna share about it. Another kind of assessment to our students is portfolio; it’s a collection of students’ work which shows students’ thought and their progress during the learning process. By challenging them to make a portfolio, it also will challenge students’ thought logically.

Some objectives from the portfolio are:

1.     Appreciating students’ progress.

We can appreciate all students for their achievement in finishing this work because every single student has his/her own thought.

2.     Documenting learning process that occurs.

The teacher can see all students’ ability by assessing their portfolio, it makes teacher easier to evaluate them one by one.

3.     Reflecting students’ capable in taking a risk.

It trains the students to responsible on their work because portfolio provides opportunities for the students to evaluate and reflect on their work.

4.  Increasing the effectiveness in learning process.

By having portfolio, it helps the teacher to provide another kind of assessment to the students, so it challenges the students and doesn’t assess them in ordinary way (let say paper-and-pencil test).

Based on my experience, it was really challenging because the teacher let me to explore as many as information about the material, she trusted on my work, so it made me focus on my work. Here are some principles of portfolio:

1.    Mutual trust between teacher and students. (This is what I felt at that time)

2.    Confidentiality. (Actually only my teacher and I that knew about my progression, my friends only know my score)

3.     Join ownership.

4.     Satisfaction.

5.     Relevance.

6.     Assessing the process and result.

Those are some information about portfolio, I will reflect more on it after we discuss it on PETA class.

All in all, we can assess the students’ not only by paper-and-pencil test but portfolio assessment. By doing portfolio, it will increase students’ understanding and makes them think logically to present some materials and assess their understanding in another way (not answering some questions on the paper). However, do not forget to let them know about the aspects that will be assessed to be their reference, so they will know what should they do, and also know the limitation for doing the work for not exaggerating.

source: Majid, A. (2008). PERENCANAAN PEMBELAJARAN, Mengembangkan Standar Kompetensi Guru. Bandung: ROSDA.