Portfolio based assessments is an alternative to standardized testing that would focus on the students growth overtime. This is accomplished by looking at as the name suggest, the portfolio of each student and realizing how each student progressed through time. What are portfolios? The article by Priscilla D. Huffman, “''Look What I Did!'' Why Portfolio-Based Assessment Works”, discuss this exact question. According to Huffman, "Portfolios are collections or samplings of information relating to each child’s developmental progress in an educational setting" (2). Therefore, Portfolio-based assessment can be used as a method to track each student’s progress. In addition, this will not only track each student progress each year, but, you can track
