Correct Answer - Option 3 : inclusion; students
Portfolios come in many forms, from notebooks filled with documents, notes, and graphics to online digital archives and student-created websites, and they may be used at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.
Portfolios can be a physical collection of student work that includes materials such as written assignments, journal entries, completed tests, artwork, lab reports, physical projects (such as dioramas or models), and other material evidence of learning progress and academic accomplishment, including awards, honors, certifications, recommendations, written evaluations by teachers or peers, and self-reflections written by students.
Portfolios helps to:
- helping students with goal setting
- guiding self-reflection for students
- helps to increase home/school communication
- the provide a compact profile of what a student can do
- assists with report card writing
- great to use during parent/teacher interviews
- While selecting material for the portfolio of students: the inclusion of students should be there.
- Student portfolios are most effective when they are used to evaluate student learning progress and achievement.
- When portfolios are used to document and evaluate the knowledge, skills, and work habits students acquire in school, teachers can use them to adapt instructional strategies when evidence shows that students either are or are not learning what they were taught.
- Portfolios can encourage students to take more ownership and responsibility for the learning process.
- Portfolios can improve communication between teachers and parents. But, they are not the content of a student's portfolio.
So, While selecting material for the portfolio of students: inclusion of students should be there.
