QC FNES 146 Textbook Chapter 11 Portfolios in PE

​QC FNES 146 Textbook Chapter 11 Using Portfolios To Assess Physical Activity And Fitness

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What are 4 advantages of using portfolios?

​1) Flexible and Multidimensional - While most culminating assessments are designed for a single unit of instruction, portfolios can document learning for multiple standards over many units or even years.

​2) Documentation of Students Progress, Improvement, and Goal Achievement - Students collect their work and then choose the pieces that most accurately document their progress toward targeted goals or standards. Provides a comprehensive view of learning and achievement.

3) Individualized Learning and Assessment - Within particular units, with guidance from the teacher, students can identify individual goals they will use to accomplish class goals. Ex. 1 student may provide artifacts to show competency in tennis while another student provides artifacts to show competency in soccer. Both are working toward showing competency in Standard 1 - A physically literate ind shows competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns.

4) ​Responsibility and Active Learning - Student and teacher roles change. Teacher becomes facilitator. Students must make decisions about learning and assessment tasks (products) that they will complete. This makes them actively involved.

5) Self-Evaluation and Reflection - Students must reflect on the quality of their work or performances to make decisions about which pieces present the best evidence of their effort, progress, and level of achievement.​

​6) Feedback and Continuous Evaluation - The portfolio process encourages teachers to provide students with many opportunities to complete a variety of assessments. This allows for ongoing feedback.

7) Increased Motivation for Students and Teachers - Students are more motivated to engage in assessment tasks that are integrated with learning activities, reflective of real-life situations, and infused with personal meaning. Students are motivated when given the opportunity to choose which artifacts they will submit for evaluation. Teachers are motivated from seeing their students take responsibility.

8) Display of Student Work - A portfolio is like a trophy case for a student's accomplishments.​

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What are 3 disadvantages of using portfolios?

​1) Time - They are time consuming to develop and time consuming to score.

2) Storage - Traditional portfolios (paper) require a lot of space, especially if you have a lot of classes. Cloud storage should resolve this issue.

3) Computers and Accessibility to Technology - While many school districts provide students with their own computer, many do not. If you require students to use technology with their portfolios, you must make sure everyone has access.

4) Video - Some schools dont allow students to keep their phones on them during the day. Some students do not have smart phones. Now they cant use their phones to access an exit slip or qr code that has a video of the skill to be performed.

5) Student Honesty - submitting artifacts that he or she did not actually complete. ​