Students’ Portfolio: An Innovative Assessment Strategy: Is it Effective for Students’ learning?

Muna Ramadhan Baitsaad

Volume : V, Issue : VIII, August - 2016

Students’ Portfolio: An Innovative Assessment Strategy: Is it Effective for Students’ learning?

Muna Ramadhan Baitsaad

Abstract :

The use of the portfolio has increased lately in nursing education. It is being used for different approaches. This article concentrates on student portfolio use as an assessment tool to help the student in learning in nursing education. A review of literatures done to examine the portfolio effectiveness as an assessment tool was carried out. The findings of the review revealed that, portfolio as an assessment encourages the students to develop particular skills. It encourages self directed learning and gives the candidates an opportunity to control their own learning and reflect on their own development and progress in terms of achieving the course outcomes and the development of clinical practice skills and competence. However, not all skills of nurses can be accurately assessed using portfolios, and reliability of portfolio assessment is challenging. However, more rigorous research is needed in nursing to evaluate the effectiveness of portfolio as an assessment tool.