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Portfolios: Types
A portfolio in the context of the classroom is a collection of student work that evidences mastery of a set of skills, applied knowledge, and attitudes. The individual works in aportfolio are often referred to as "artifacts."
Most effective portfolios also contain a reflective element, where the student has in some form contemplated her or his own strengths and weaknesses asa learner. Portfolios can be divided into two groups: process oriented or product oriented portfolios.
Process oriented portfolios
Process oriented portfolios tell a story about the growth of alearner. They document the processes of learning and creating, including earlier drafts, reflections on the process, and obstacles encountered along the way. They may be organized into skill areas orthemes, yet each contains a student's work from the beginning, middle, and end of a learning unit. For example, there may be three drafts of a short story: a preliminary draft, a reworked draftreflecting teacher and peer feedback, and a final draft. The student can comment on the ways one is better than the other. In this manner, the artifacts can be compared providing evidence about how thestudent's skills have improved. In any number of ways, in writing or perhaps during a parent-teacher conference, the student would reflect on the learning process: identifying how skills have changed,celebrating accomplishments, and establishing present and future challenges.
Product oriented portfolios
Product oriented portfolios are collections of work a student considers his or her best. The aimis to document and reflect on the quality and range of accomplishments rather than the process that produced them. It generally requires a student to collect all of her work until the end, at whichtime she must choose artifacts that represent work of the highest quality.
There are any number of ways to facilitate this process. Students can be left completely to their own devices to choose. A...