Using Portfolios for
External Assessment:
An Experiment in Portugal
Maria Teresa Torres Pereira de Eça
Abstract
This article describes some of the conclusions
reached from an experiment using portfolios for
art external assessment at the end of secondary
education (age 17+) conducted in five
Portuguese schools in 2001–2003. Several positive outcomes were found. Students found
portfolios to be motivating and fostering
constructive learning, dialogue and co-operation
between students and teachers. The new
assessment procedures developed communities of assessors enabling some increased
consistency of examination results and positive
professional development opportunities.
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However some weaknesses were detected
such as potential bias related to the degree of
teacher aid and practical problems as, for example, time-consuming in-service teacher training.
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1. Methodology
The experiment was part of a PhD research study
[1]; the research took place between 2000 and
2004. Quantitative and qualitative research methods were used; data collection included
observation, documents, interviews, questionnaires, teachers’ and external observers’ reports
and the results of portfolio marking exercises. The
participants in the experiment were selected from
a list of volunteers gleaned from an initial survey
questionnaire about the current Portuguese art
examinations conducted in Portugal during 2001
with 44 art teachers and 104 students. The design
of the assessment instrument and procedures
was developed in three stages:
• Stage 1: Development: Rationales, draft specifications of the assessment instrument and
assessment procedures.
• Stage 2: Trial 1 – Piloting: Negotiate with participants; trial with a reasonable sample, evaluate
and refine the draft specifications for the
assessment instrument and assessment
procedures.
• Stage 3: Trial 2 – Main Trial: Implementation:
trial a larger scale experimental assessment
and evaluate the specifications for the assessment instrument and assessment procedures.
A new framework for art external assessment
was initially designed, first, by drafting general
guidelines including rationales, contents, the
evidence to be assessed and procedures necessary to establish an assessment community. The
design of the instrument (Portfolio) and assessment procedures was developed through a pilot
study involving seven art teachers and 51 art
students in one secondary school in Portugal. The
rationales were discussed; teachers and
students negotiated the domains of knowledge
and evidence to be assessed – as well as criteria
and grade descriptors. After the detailed instructions for students and teachers were written,
students developed their portfolios according to
a project brief chosen by them. The teachers in
the pilot were trained to assess the students’
portfolios during five one-day meetings using
visual exemplars of students’ work to reach a
common interpretation of criteria and standards.
After the students’ portfolios were completed,
moderation procedures were tried out.
The final evaluation of the pilot study helped to
redefine the instructions, criteria and procedures
used in the main trial.
At the second stage, the revised instrument
and procedures were tried out with a larger sample
including five schools from different Portuguese
regions (10 art teachers and 117 art students).
2. Design of the examination instruments
and procedures
The rationale
The specification of the instrument followed the
rationale for art and design education described
by Swift & Steers [2] who argued that art education should address three fundamental
principles: difference, plurality and independent
thought. These principles are embodied in the
promotion of risk-taking, personal enquiry and
challenging established orthodoxies, especially
those associated with cultural hierarchies. Thus,
learning in the arts should develop disciplinary
knowledge, creative and critical thinking, and the
skills to interrogate dominant ideologies.
The rationale was further inspired by four
dimensions of student understanding in the arts
proposed by Ross, et al [3]:
1. Conventionalisation: an awareness and ability
to use the conventions of art forms.
2. Appropriation: embracing for personal use,
the available expressive form.
3. Transformation: the creative search for
personal knowledge.
4. Publication: the placing of the outcome in the
public domain.
These dimensions operated as four basic quadrants from which to systematise the contents and
skills of art and design for assessment purposes in
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Figure 1: Types of evidence for Portfolio
Reports or notes
about previous
experiences, interests,
etc. (visual/written)
Student Portfolio
Folder, exhibition;
workjournals; CD;
Webpage, etc.
Preliminary studies,
developmental records
(Visual/ written)
Final Products (visual):
Paintings, drawings,
sculptures, printings;
graphic design; product
design; multimedia
photographs, films,
video records of performances, installations,
exhibitions, etc.
Self-assessment report.
Interviews: written or
oral: tape, video, digital
record about the
students’ intentions,
progress, investigation,
achievement, presentations, evaluation.
Records of self-assessment and ‘crits’
Investigation
reports and data
critical inquiry
(Written and visual)
the form of a blueprint which attempted to foster a
holistic vision of art and design, that promoted risktaking, personal enquiry and critical skills.
The instrument
The portfolio was adopted as the assessment
instrument for the new examination. In compiling
a portfolio, students explore a theme, plan, elaborate, present and evaluate their work [4]. In light
of the Portuguese tradition of one single examination period at the end of the art course, it was
considered appropriate to develop a single portfolio as the final art and design examination. A
decision was taken that the examination should
be conducted in the last term of the last academic
year during normal art and design class time (22
hours). Students and teachers would receive all
the instructions at least one month before the
examination to allow for preparation time. The
portfolio was devised as an open-ended project
to explore a theme that should include selected
evidence of students’ intentions, motivations,
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critical inquiry, explorative and developmental
studies, final products and records of self-assessment. Self-assessment evidence was included in
order to ensure students’ voices were heard and
their intentions made clear. The evidence to be
selected for assessment by students was
schematised as above in figure 1.
The assessment criteria
The design of the instrument was limited, in
particular, by the need to establish criteria that
would be subject to common interpretation by
users. The agreed criteria were:
C1: Record personal ideas, intentions, experiences, information and opinions in visual and other
forms.
C2: Critically analyse sources from visual culture
showing understanding of purposes, meanings
and contexts
C3: Develop ideas through purposeful experimentation, exploration and evaluation.
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C4: Present a coherent and organised sample of
works and final product revealing a personal and
informed response that realises their intentions.
C5: Evaluate and justify the qualities of the work.
The assessment procedures
In-service teacher training was provided through
five one-day meetings and five on-line discussion
meetings. The meetings included explanation
and discussion of instructions and simulation of
marking using examples of students’ portfolios
designed to achieve consensus when interpreting criteria. In order to achieve consistent results
a procedure for external verification of the internal marks was also designed. A significant
sample of students’ portfolios was available to
one or more external assessors for checking the
fairness and consistency of internal marking.
The first trial
The pilot exercise was centred on negotiation.
According to an appointed external observer, ‘the
design was based on teacher ownership: sharing
power and constructing knowledge instead of an
elitist, top down vision of the assessment’. Teacher
ownership of the assessment was ensured and
emphasised. According to one teacher:
Examinations used to be imposed by the government; the question papers only express the view of
the people in the national awarding board about
what they value in art and design or about what they
think should be assessed. With this experiment I felt
that things can be different; we can also express our
views about what must be assessed and we ended
up by enlarging the vision… (TR: Ana Paula; 18
January 2003).
Students’ opinions also were taken into account
during the pilot exercise:
It was quite odd during the examination preparation,
because the teacher was always asking us if we
agreed with the instructions and so on; I think it was
a sign of respect for us; it was helpful not just because
we could express our opinions but also because by
talking about it we better understood the instructions
(SR: Manuel; 15 January 2003).
The main trial (2002–2003)
The second trial included five schools in diverse
geographical locations and with different
resources: Schools P; B, K, V and A. Teachers’
approaches to art education and students’ motivations were also very diverse according to the
context. At School P, in the teacher’s view
students’ poor attitudes and lack of motivation
were a consequence of negative educational
practices:
they have a passive attitude towards art disciplines;
because they are used and were trained as passive
objects to make pre-determined tasks (J report, 6
June 2003).
Students at P school were unfamiliar with the
new assessment requirements, their previous
learning in art was underpinned by a formalist
approach, and because of that they could not
perform well in the majority of tasks.
[During the course] It was not the same thing; the
preparation/search was just finding an image and
after we did the work using the image; for example
an impressionist or abstract work. We are used to
making drawings (MTEP; Studio Art) to experiment
with specific techniques the teacher ask us to experiment… The work is the same for everyone; for
example a face and then we work the form; light;
colour, etc. (SR Sergio, 2nd June 2003).
School B was a contrast. According to the
teacher; the students were competitive and well
motivated. The teacher had no problems applying the new instrument with the students
because she already assessed students in a similar way and fostered the kind of knowledge,
understanding and skills required by the new
assessment instrument in her classes. So, the
tasks were not unfamiliar and students had the
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necessary training to perform within the
constraints and opportunities presented.
Previous experience seemed to be a key factor for
the success of the new assessment instrument
in this case. In general, students considered that
the new assessment instrument was valid and
they enjoyed the relative freedom of choice:
The portfolio was good essentially because we had
to make different works; it was not prescriptive; we
had a theme and we had to develop the work…
From our heads; not like ‘go and draw, draw a bench
with a monkey’… I did a portfolio with things I like to
do and showing what I wanted to show (SR Telma,
2nd June 2003).
The portfolio demands more creativity; it is much more
enjoyable and motivating for us; but it is also more difficult because of that (SR Sara, 2nd June 2003).
At School A, implementing the new assessment
raised several difficulties:
The main difficulties in implementing the portfolio
with my art class were related to the rationale of the
portfolio; it was very difficult to require students to
think independently because they are used to following detailed prescriptions for each task (M’s report,
27 June 2003).
However, the teacher ended up with a generally
positive implementation of the portfolio task. –
this was probably a consequence of the great
deal of support the students received from their
teacher.
At School K, students were quite excited
about the new instrument; they seemed to
understand the tasks as authentic and liked the
more personal way of working in the arts:
The portfolio was more real than the usual work and
tests we do in the art classes; it is about our life; not
school life or tasks that school thinks are important for
us (SR Ruben, 9 June 2003).
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The new instrument had been piloted at School V,
so the students and teachers were familiar with it.
Consequently the conditions in this school were
quite different from the other participating
schools.
since we started the portfolio in September [pilot]
students had the time to be prepared; little by little they
learned skills of critical reflection and self-evaluation.
They learn how to plan the different steps of the work
in the time to respond to the deadlines. It was good to
continue to use portfolios after the first experience
[pilot] at the beginning of the year; students acquired
so many learning experiences, they had the opportunity to develop organised ways of thinking and
making; they developed independent skills and little
by little they pushed their own barriers; they learned
how to realise their own intentions and how to make
projects that motivated them (TR AP, 25 June 2003).
3. Some conclusions from the experiment in
Portugal
Several positive aspects of the experimental
assessment instrument and procedures were
found, especially with regard to aspects such as
content, response and face validity. Portfolios
were viewed by students as motivational and
fostering constructive learning, dialogue and cooperation between students and teachers. The
new assessment procedures developed communities of assessors enabling some increased
consistency of examination results and positive
professional
development
opportunities.
However some weaknesses were detected,
such as potential bias related to the degree of
teacher aid and practical problems as, for example, time consuming in-service teacher training.
Validity
The assessment instrument integrated a wide
range of methods of inquiry, media, and domains
of art and design, allowing students to develop
personal projects in which they could personalise
social issues and reveal important cognitive and
metacognitive skills. The portfolio, as an
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extended task, provided valid and authentic tasks
related to the art curriculum, and the use of portfolios for assessment purposes provided a new
perspective on learning. The portfolio connected
process and product and students were engaged
in learning as an interactive process. Student
learning was well documented and they actively
explored and evaluated their learning through
engaging in discussion with their teachers, other
students or peers. Collaboration, dialogue and
reflection became essential processes in the
construction of the portfolio.
The framework [5] used for designing the
assessment specifications was intended to
accommodate postmodern views of art and
education and to relocate student experience,
and contemporary realities of the visual arts, by
encouraging students to ‘develop a critical
awareness of the visual culture they encounter
every day’ [6]. It was intended to reduce tensions
between assessment discourses and the heterogeneity of practice by moving towards a more
inclusive approach to teaching and learning in art
education.
During the trials of the new assessment procedures it was found that in certain cases students
integrated everyday life experiences and
reflected on the social meanings of art through
exploration of issues such as racism, sexual orientation, otherness, etc. They used a variety of
methods of investigation to understand social
issues, including interviewing members of the
community and independent searches for source
material. But this was not the case for all
students. The role of the teachers and their
beliefs significantly influenced students’ choices.
In some cases teachers were not able to go
beyond the formalist art concepts they had been
taught and they did not encourage critical analyses of visual culture. Such teachers were nervous
about letting students investigate themes they
were not comfortable with themselves, and
convinced their students to engage with ‘safer’
and more conventional projects. The in-service
training meetings were insufficient to encourage
such teachers to make profound changes in their
attitudes. The on-line meetings while were
intended to provide support for teachers and
more space for dialogue were of limited help in
attaining these goals. Using Internet resources
for dialogue about art and design learning and
assessment may become more useful in the
future; at the present time it was found that both
teachers and their students found it difficult to
use such tools because of their unfamiliarity.
Moreover digital reproductions of students’
studio art works are not appropriate for fully
appreciating and discussing the visual characteristics of portfolios, except perhaps when the
student’s chosen media is itself digital.
After the trials it was evident that the teacher’s
role is fundamental in preparing and managing
the learning environment, and it was crucial when
students challenged conventions or methods of
work through truly creative proposals or when
they attained unexpected outcomes that
revealed their own intentions, personal experience and awareness of social and visual culture
issues. Some teachers acted as facilitators
through the substantive dialogue that took place
between the student and the teacher, using
teaching methods based on collaborative learning and partnership. This enabled assessment to
be integrated into the teaching and learning cycle.
However, one negative consequence of the
importance of the teacher’s role in the assessment was concern that the instrument was
strongly biased by the degree of aid afforded by
the teacher.
The portfolio approach was found to respect
the students’ voices and personal styles.
Students were given a considerable degree of
decision-making autonomy: selection of themes,
selection of works for inclusion in portfolios and
the reasons for inclusion were negotiated with
their teachers. Students felt that with portfolio
assessment they gained more ownership of the
learning and assessment process. The conclusion was drawn that students need to have
decision-making powers about themes for
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project briefs and about which work is chosen for
inclusion in portfolios if they are to experience
ownership real commitment. It increased the
content validity of the assessment instrument
and presented more opportunities for student
motivation and independent learning.
However, for some students, such a level of
autonomy was difficult; while they were aware
that they were expected to be thoughtful about
the selection of work for inclusion, this presented
problems because they had not developed a
capacity for critical reflection in previous years.
From the research it was also apparent that some
students found self-evaluation difficult. With portfolio assessment, students need to take
responsibility for self-directed learning and for
developing and maintaining their portfolios. The
student interviews confirmed that this requirement was understood in principle, but
nevertheless they were not always able to evaluate their own progress and achievement.
Interactive learning, tutorials, interviews, one-toone sessions, discussion groups, peer critique,
were all found to be helpful in this regard. But
developing a capacity to select appropriate
evidence of attainment of particular competencies takes time for some students – more time
than this experiment allowed.
The breadth and flexibility of the assessment
instrument accommodated a variety of different
visions of art and design processes and making
which challenged the old habit of setting teacherdirected prescriptive tasks. It does, however,
require art teachers who are able to help students
develop independent critical and self-reflective
skills. It also demands dialogue between teachers and students, mutual understanding of aims
and intentions and negotiation of tasks and
approaches. From the trials it was evident that
portfolios can provide very useful feedback for
students and teachers. Assessment was seen in
Wolf’s terms as ‘an episode of learning’ [7] providing qualitative information in the course of
portfolio development through constructive
dialogue between students and teachers [8].
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Reliability
The development of communities of assessors for
inter-rater reliability purposes can be used as positive professional development opportunities [9].
Boughton’s concept of a ‘community of judges’
[10] and the example of the English moderation
procedures was used to help design the assessment procedures. It was clearly established that
reliability of results achieved in the trials increased
in comparison with the current Portuguese system
which uses a single assessor. As noted by several
authors, assessors can reach a considerable
degree of consensus through the use of standardisation and moderation procedures [11].
Using the new assessment procedures
required considerable time for training and for
dialogue between teachers. The increased
burden on teachers needs to be acknowledged –
the quantity of work to be assessed, the standardisation meetings and reports to be written –
all contributed to teachers’ workload. This was
only possible in the trials because the teachers
who participated in them were convinced that it
was important for their own professional development and for the fairness of art and design
students’ assessment. One feature of the experiment’s success was that teachers had enhanced
confidence in their powers to make assessment
decisions. The new procedures did not undermine teachers’ professionalism. The current
Portuguese reliance on teachers’ connoisseurship
was maintained, but the shift was made to
dependence on a community of assessors
achieving consensus.
Impact
From the research it appeared that the effects of
the new examination were significant for
students, teachers, schools and the curriculum.
A principal outcome of the new assessment
instrument could be an increase in the status of
studio activity and the raising of art and design
educational standards. The teachers in the pilot
and the trial reported that they changed the way
that they thought of their teaching, classroom
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practice and assessment methods. These
changes happened because the teachers who
were already competent practitioners reflected
on the proposed rationales for the experience and
decided, with the support of their peers, that they
had to make changes, because they agreed with
the proposals and believed that their students
had the right to be involved in and be responsible
for their own learning and assessment.
Effects upon students
The portfolio was a way to improve our knowledge
and at the same time it was preparing us for the
future (SR Mafalda, questionnaire, June 2003).
The questionnaire responses revealed that all the
teachers and a great majority of students saw the
new instrument as a good learning tool and a
sound foundation for university. From the sample
included in the research it was apparent that the
impact of portfolios increased students in-depth
study, active and independent learning, awareness of their own learning strategies, motivation
and interest in their own achievements and
performance. Inevitably this demanded
increased work and students who have grown
used to being tacit observers might resent having
to work harder. Nevertheless students felt there
were benefits in the new assessment system; it
seemed more interesting and relevant.
As Klenowski [12] pointed out, it is not only
teachers who need to learn about the pedagogical implications of using portfolios for
assessment and learning; students need specific
teaching and support to develop the necessary
cognitive processes. It was evident from the
research that students need skills in independent
study, group work, self-reflection, self-assessment, self-evaluation and questioning. Some
students were not prepared to develop their portfolios because they lacked background skills in
critical inquiry, in defining problems, self-discipline and self-evaluation. The teachers saw that
the source of the problem was that their students
lacked the necessary skills both to judge specific
problems in understanding and to set realistic
targets to remedy problems within reasonable
time frames. However, where teachers created
classroom environments in which students
worked together to understand teachers’
comments about their work, then peer and selfassessment provided the training that students
needed to judge their own learning and to begin
to take action to improve their performance. It
was evident that changes are needed to the role
of students, but the period during which the role
of the students changes needs to be handled
carefully and the students have to be supported
as they learn to become active, responsible learners. This requires time.
Effects upon teachers
It was evident that teachers initially felt overloaded by the portfolio experience – it marked a
significant change in the Portuguese context.
However they did not see it as a negative experience. On the contrary, teachers appreciated the
opportunity to learn, improve their relationship
with their students and assessment practices.
The experience helped me to understand my
students better. Through the dialogue established
during the portfolio, I was able to understand them
as individuals, looking to their particularities and
respecting their differences (TR Ana Paula, questionnaire, June 2003)
Now, I think that I can assess students with more
consistency and I can give more valuable assessment feedback to students (TR Carolina,
questionnaire, June 2003).
After the main trial at least nine teachers
appeared convinced about the positive qualities
of portfolio assessment. Their responses
revealed that their perceptions of the necessary
knowledge, understanding and skills in art education had changed. They were convinced of the
advantages of portfolios as a learning strategy
and as an instrument for summative assessment.
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It was evident that to increase its validity the new
assessment instrument would require a long
period of time for students to become familiar
with a culture of self-reflection that is only established through long years of education. It also
became increasingly clear, as Black et al [13]
argue, that the teachers also needed to train their
students to take responsibility for their own learning and assessment. The teacher’s role is to
‘scaffold’ this process – that is, to provide a framework of appropriate targets and to give support
throughout the course of attaining them. In
Portugal, implementation of changes in classroom assessment would call for profound
changes in both teachers’ perceptions of their
own role in relation to their students and in their
classroom practice. Knowledge acquisition must
be conceptualised as an active process rather
than passive. Cognitive processes used by
students such as self-regulation and self-monitoring are fundamental to understanding
individual development and achievement and
have to be fostered by teachers. This kind of
assessment therefore has to be viewed as an
integral part of the curriculum combining summative and formative forms; it would be necessary
for teachers to change prescriptive modes of
teaching and probably to revise fundamentally
their rationales for art and design education.
Effects upon schools and curriculum
Teachers saw the portfolio as a valid instrument
for learning and assessment with strong consequences for the educational experience. As
stated by José, the introduction of portfolio
assessment could be used as an agent for
curriculum reform:
However, we live in a period of social and technological change and our students should have access
to a different kind of learning, fostering the generation
of personal ideas and the portfolio as an assessment
instrument is a good strategy to introduce new pedagogical practices (J’s report, 6 June 2003).
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The teachers agreed that portfolio could function
as an agent for the reform of established educational orthodoxy, and to promote diversity and
plurality of approach, because it was a form of
assessment that was integrated with the learning
process and focused on students as active
subjects rather than objects for passive reception
of information:
That’s why I think this is not just about assessment;
portfolio is more than an assessment instrument; it is
a way of teaching and learning (TR Rui, 25 June 2003).
However, certain problems need to be acknowledged. Schools need to provide greater and more
equal resources for students. The learning milieu
is a fundamental resource and schools must
recognise its importance. Another important
consideration for schools is the allocation of time
for teachers’ in-service training, meetings and
marking. Teachers need to be motivated and to
understand the justification if they are to be
expected to take on the burdens of change. They
need time to plan, discuss and mark students’
work; they also need opportunities for in-service
training, peer-reviews or meetings in order to
create an effective community of assessors.
4. Further research
This research study was not expected to resolve
all the problems of validity and reliability in external art assessment and some problematic issues
were not fully solved. Portfolio assessment
achieved greater validity than the current
Portuguese art and design examination tests but
whether or not more equality and fairness was
obtained is questionable. Some students were
disadvantaged because of poor access to
resources and teacher aid. Even if the required
knowledge, skills, competencies and criteria are
established through dialogue and agreement,
allowing some degree of teachers’ and learners’
ownership, external assessment still denies diversity and plurality of approach for some groups of
students and schools. Greater fairness might be
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obtained by using negotiated assessment [14].
Only embryonic forms of negotiated assessment
were used in this research, however the possibility of negotiated assessment as an element in
external assessment could be explored in further
research. Other methods and forms of assessment need to be investigated that might, as
Rayment [15] suggests, ‘identify methods of
providing valid and reliable evaluation procedures
which can perform both formative and summative functions’.
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