Assessment First Activity Finals
Assessment First Activity Finals
Assessment First Activity Finals
Subject: Assessment
Portfolio
Working Portfolio – It contains the work In progress as well as the finished samples of work
used to reflect on process by the learners and teachers. The working portfolio may be used to
diagnose learner’s needs.
Showcase Portfolio – also known as the best work portfolio or the display portfolio. In this
portfolio it focuses on the learner’s best and most creative work, it exhibits the best
performance of the learners.
Progress portfolio – known as the teacher alternative Assessment portfolio. It contains the
example of learners work with the same type done over a period of time and they are utilized to
assess their progress.
Performance based assessment is more on actual assessment, while portfolio assessment is more on
collecting learners works and exhibiting their creativity, progress and achievements.
The Performance-based assessment is a direct assessment which means learners will have no
time to prepare just the learning’s they had for the day and also it can make the learners agony on
assessments very short depending on your performance and assessment to make, while the portfolio
learners may have a lot of time in preparing it putting more effort to make it perfect you can review it
and change something if you like compared to performance based assessment.
Working portfolio, the working portfolio is a working document. This means that you will be building or
adding to the portfolio every day during your placement to display the tasks and activities that you are
completing. For example at the beginning of the class the teacher already tells the class to keep all the
activities they had for they will make a portfolio at the end of the semester containing all their activities,
assessments, and daily reflections and evaluations of your teacher.
A showcase portfolio contains products that demonstrate how capable the owner is at any given
moment. For example a teacher showcases her idea by posting pictures on the board and cites some
examples that show how interesting the methods are for students.
Progress portfolio also known as the teacher alternative Assessment portfolio this is a method of
evaluation that measures a student’s level of proficiency in a subject as opposed to the student’s level of
knowledge. The overall goal of alternative assessment is to allow students to demonstrate their
knowledge and execute tasks.