Practice Context/Course guide/Developing an assessment portfolio

Portfolios are useful tools that can have a variety of purposes.
 * They can be used for development - tracking growth or change over time, showing progress in relation to goal setting or enabling strengths and weaknesses to be identified.
 * They can be used for presentation - showcasing or demonstrating work outcomes/projects or identifying successful achievements.
 * They are also effective tools for assessment - demonstrating progress, achievement and attainment of outcomes.

When it comes to assessment of learning; portfolios are an effective tool to collate and demonstrate evidence of your learning. They can show what you know and how that learning was acquired. Through the use of a portfolio you can demonstrate that you are "capable of critical analysis and synthesis, and of conveying ideas clearly" (Benton,N. (1995). Recognition of prior learning: A personal guide to developing your portfolio. Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research. p 18.)

In this course you are being asked to create a portfolio to reflect on and demonstrate your learning around the five specified key subjects.

Traditionally portfolios have been paper based but as technology and the web develops e- portfolios have become more common.

An e-portfolio is a learner-driven collection of digital artifacts articulating experiences, achievements and evidence of learning (Galatis, Leeson, Mason, Miller, & ONeill, p. 2 Retrieved from Wodongatafe).

Time to explore the possible formats that you could choose to use for your portfolio.