Why is it important to use portfolios as an assessment tool? Because portfolios show best the growth and change in a child over time. In this overview of Portfolio Assessment, discover a common-sense approach to using portfolios that is designed to assess young children as they work by taking work samples and making anecdotal records of what you observe. Learn which work samples to collect and what they tell you. Your tools for gathering information are taking photographs and making tape recordings. You will practice evaluating a child's academic progress and complete an educational portrait of the child.
BRING SCISSORS, A RULER, AND A HOLE PUNCH!