CCE / Students Assessment through Portfolio Portfolio Assessment: Introduction Portfolios are becoming an important means of assessment in many schools. In some cases, they are used as a basic or sole, method of performance assessment. In others, they provide another useful tool in the teachers’ assessment kit. A portfolio is a collection of student work that has been selected and organized to show student learning progress (development portfolio) or to show samples of the students’ best work (showcase portfolio). A common practice is to use a developmental portfolio throughout an instructional program and the showcase portfolio at the end. Thus, the showcase portfolio provides a collection of work that indicates the student’s final level of performance. Portfolio is the collection of evidences of students’ work over a period of time. It could be day-to-day work or selection of the learner’s best piece of work. Painters and commercial artists often use Portfolios to demonst...