Portfolio Assessment
Portfolio assessment evaluates learning through a purposeful collection of a student's work assembled over time rather than through a single test. The portfolio may showcase best work, document growth, or demonstrate mastery against standards, and typically includes student selection and reflection. Articulated for education by Arter and Spandel and stress-tested in large-scale programs analyzed by Koretz, it captures authentic, complex performance that on-demand testing misses, while raising distinctive challenges for the reliability and comparability of scores.
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- Arter, J. A., & Spandel, V. (1992). Using portfolios of student work in instruction and assessment. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 11(1), 36–44. DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3992.1992.tb00230.x ↗
- Koretz, D. (1998). Large-scale portfolio assessments in the US: Evidence pertaining to the quality of measurement. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 5(3), 309–334. DOI: 10.1080/0969595980050302 ↗
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ScholarGate. (2026, June 22). Portfolio Assessment of Student Work Over Time. ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/en/education/portfolio-assessment
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