Early on I was wondering about the potential of portfolios as an alternative student assessment method. Portfolios are like family albums. It chronicles memorable events as you were growing up.
Like an album portfolios can also chronicle students' intellectual developments. By compiling and comparing their old and current work both teachers and students can determine how much they have progressed.
Ideal as portfolios are it has some limitations. The most pressing of those problems is class size. With more than 40 students in a class and roughly 8 sections per semester it would be virtually impossible for teachers to read and evaluate all of them.
Teachers will literally drown in a sea of papers if every student submits a portfolio. Teachers don't just check works they also have extra curricular activities to attend to in addition to teaching.
The best way for portfolio assessment to work is to limit class size to around 15 students per class. Teaching loads should also be pegged to a maximum of 6 subjects per semester. Roughly 90 course works to evaluate for every requirement.
If school administrators wish students to have worthwhile experiences in classes they ought to limit class size. Fewer students means more chances for students to participate. It makes teachers' task of evaluating student output more bearable too.
Such a proposal is almost logistically impossible especially for private schools. Nonetheless school administrators have to find novel ways to overcome this to give students the best learning experience possible.
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Illustrations Cited:
http://childrencomefirst.com/icannotdoeverything.shtml
http://www.pritchettcartoons.com/newsprint.htm
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