portfolio writing

Portfolio Writing

By- Arun and Shubham

Post Graduate Diploma in Teaching Skills

Portfolio Writing It is a collection of student writing that’s intended to demonstrate the student/ writer development over the course of one or more academic terms.

Portfolio writing

Confidence building

Self-discovery

Purpose of Portfolio Writing

1. Assess their own work and their progress as writers.

2. Demonstrate a writer's improvement and achievements.

3. It allows writers to collect a body of writing in one place and to organize and present it in an effective, attractive format.

4. It helps instructor to focus more on the complete body of work than on individual assignments.

5. Students reflect on their work and measure their progress; as they do so, they may improve their ability to evaluate their own work.

Steps in Portfolio Writing

Process Writing Portfolios

Reflective Statements

Feedback

Portfolio Assessment

Steps for Writing Portfolio’s Biography

Introduce your self Casual tone

Decide which professional

experience to include

Consider listing awards and accolades

Add a few personal detailsAdd photograph

Proofread and edit

Importance of Portfolio Writing

More personal and creative in order to expand on and exhibit your

skills, knowledge, projects and experiences.

Multi-Faceted way to organize accomplishments, goals, aspirations,

and personal thought.

It is a useful tool to include in an interview. It provides tangible

proof of your skills and abilities and demonstrates to the employer

that you are qualified for that specific job.

A portfolio demonstrates prior work or learning experiences that can

be useful for educational credit.

Types of Portfolio

Student Portfolio

Project Portfolio

Professional Portfolio

Online Portfolio

Personal Portfolio

Merits of portfolio writing

Build confidence

Highlight students

strength and area of

improvement Develop

cognitive skill

Improvement in writing

papers and assignment

Identify weakness

Assess student

performance

Motivation Progress in capabilities

It requires timely monitoring and review

Lack of Standardization

Not Feasible for Large Scale Learning Assessment

Not effective method of assessing students, because figure out only writing

skills.

Time consuming method

No valid grading criteria as of yet have been established to evaluate quality

of generated portfolios.

Since outcomes are very personal, contents varying from one student to

another, it would be very difficult to objectively assess the contents of

portfolios.

Demerits of Portfolio Writing