Should portfolios be graded?

It is up to you and your assessment regime. The answer to this one turns again on assessment validity and reliability, and this is a bigger topic than we can do credit to here. Suffice it to say that much of our conventional assessment practice does not offer high levels of reliability, and portfolios are certainly no worse. They can do better if you follow the guidelines for increasing reliability in Is there anything portfolios can assess that other tools can’t?.

Last Modified: 22 July 2010