The Importance Of Portfolios In Education

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1. A portfolio is a collection of artifacts that when put together can tell a story. It is a collection of student’s work that demonstrates the efforts, progress, and achievements in certain areas, and it also shows the child’s unique capabilities as well as their accomplishments. Portfolios play a significant role in learning and they are a rich source of information in the classroom. They make a basis for evaluation, and a guide for learning and development. ( McAfee, O., Leong, D. J., & Bodrova, E. (2016). Assessing and guiding young children 's development and learning (6th ed.). Boston: Pearson. The responsibility lies on the teacher to collect, interpret, and share the portfolio. Portfolios are good for organizing, storing, and to …show more content…
Portfolios open many samples from assessment windows. Children are involved in selection and reflection of items that are appropriate to their development and item of consideration. Portfolios contain information that is common to all the children in a group as well that which is unique to each individual child. Portfolios is an ongoing assessment that is not a static report, grades, or scores. Portfolios are rich in information for communication with and about children and their learning.( McAfee, O., Leong, D. J., & Bodrova, E. (2016). Assessing and guiding young children 's development and learning (6th ed.). Boston: Pearson. When the student collects, organizes, and reflects on their work it helps the student build their understanding of themselves as learners, and helps them have a sense of accomplishment. The student will learn to set goals, notice new competencies and new challenges are habits of thought that we instill in them through the use of a portfolio. Portfolios tell many stories. The key to an effective and an efficient portfolio is to know which story you are going to tell. A portfolio is to show the progress of one or more learning goals. They are to improve communication about complex learning …show more content…
A group profile is a planning tool that is used to identify children’s needs and strength so that differentiated instruction can be planned. Group profile is to identify many children with same interests, strengths, needs, or level s of performance. ( McAfee, O., Leong, D. J., & Bodrova, E. (2016). Assessing and guiding young children 's development and learning (6th ed.). Boston: Pearson. It condenses information on the performance of all the class to one area of development and one assessment of the whole group. Group profiles summarizes the qualitative, and qualitative variations that is found in the behavior of individual’s in a

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