Portfolio as a student’s assessment tool: lesson learned

Abstract

The study examined the potential of portfolio as a tool of assessment in the process of final evaluation of students’ competence. This empirical study was joined by 29 students taking English Teaching Media subject at the English Education Study Program, the University ofPalangka Raya using portfolio to assess the students’ activities in the aspects of presentation, exercises, mid-term test and final project. The students’ performance in the portfolio was rated by using a rating scale of 1 (below the standard, emerging) to 4 (exceeds the standard, exemplary). The results revealed both the advantages and limitations of portfolio for the students’ final evaluation and also the possibilities of optimization as an assessment tool for the lecturers to reflectively think about their practices