Portfolio assessment has been around for a long time, and the practice appears to be growing. It’s easy to see why. A portfolio lends itself naturally to assessment, ...

Portfolio assessment has been around for a long time, and the practice appears to be growing. It’s easy to see why. A portfolio lends itself naturally to assessment, ...

Portfolios: A New Wave in Assessment. 04/01/98; ... (Paulson, Paulson, & Meyer, 1991). A portfolio may be used todemonstrate a student's achievements in specific subject areas suchas mathematics and ...

Portfolio Assessment’s Inherent Limitations. There are three major reasons portfolios are not appropriate for higher education assessment programs: They are (a) not standardized, (b) not feasible for ...

Traditional assessments, like exams, often emphasise memorisation and short-term performance over critical thinking, reflection and application, which are essential for fostering deep and meaningful ...

Morningstar’s 5-Point Retirement-Portfolio Assessment special report is designed to help investors gauge the viability of their retirement plans, step by step. Of course, ...

Portfolio assessments like this one, which look a lot like doctoral dissertation defenses, are on the rise in California. The practice, touted by educators nationwide as a proven path to college ...

Meyer's school adviser suggested she try something called portfolio assessment, a process that would allow her to gain credit for a specific course by documenting what she already knew.

One of the glaring disadvantages of relying on traditional testing as a method of assessment is that it promotes “teaching to the test”. Assessment experts, therefore, are of the view that ...

Note: This article is part of Morningstar's January 2016 5-Step Retirement-Portfolio Assessment Week special report. This article previously appeared Nov. 16, 2015.