The Portfolio and Its Use: A Roadmap for Assessment is a book about how you can begin using portfolios in your classroom. It is a beginning book for teachers who want to try portfolios but don't quite don't know where to begin. It suggests an easy-to-use method based on taking work samples and writing anecdotal records. It teaches how to do both effectively.

The book tells you how you can assess your children in their natural classroom setting as the children work, not at formal testing times. Teachers learn to assess when things are happening in the classroom and to change things immediately if activities in place are not working. There are ready-to-use forms, like checklists, parent conference forms, and letters, in the back of the book. Also, there are skills lists that can be posted around the classroom so that any observer can see quickly see what skills the children are learning where they are working.

The Portfolio and Its Use is published by the Southern Early Childhood Association (SECA). The book is used as a course book by a number of colleges and universities.