2. Strengths
• Allows students to showcase their best work.
• Helps build technical and critical literacy.
• Students can display work in a range of digital
mediums.
• Equal parts process and product based
activity.
3. Weaknesses
• Students may need intensive guidance with
– technical literacy
– critical skills, (what to collect and reflect on)
– Netiquette of ePortfolio environment
• Time consuming
4. Opportunities
• Student accomplishments can be tracked over
a long time period.
• Building digital literacy and a professional
digital footprint.
• Showcase a students best work.
5. Threats
• Requires reliable internet access and
reasonable technical knowledge.
• Marking guides and learning outcomes need
to be made very clear by the teacher.
• Learning must be appropriately scaffolded by
the educator.
6. Conclusion
Reflective Portfolios are an excellent
opportunity to build assessment which is
process based and also delivers a final
product. Over a semester, for example, a
teacher can present students with a series of
learning experiences with no pressure
attached to them, and allow the student to
reflect and decide which pieces will be
assessed.
7. Self assessment affords students an insight into
their own learning.
Teachers need to make sure they scaffold this
learning appropriately if it is to work.
Building a portfolio is time consuming, and for
some, quite daunting. Spending a lot of time
on a portfolio may be a scary prospect for
some students. Providing the portfolio as an
assessment task allows students to practice
with the software, and this familiarity makes it
feel less daunting.
