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Portfolios have been used extensively in higher education for assessment in practice-based subjects such as art or medical education. They can be used to support and record student learning and for assessment purposes. Portfolios encourage self-directed learning, and provide a way for students to demonstrate achievement of learning outcomes, and reflect on their learning.

Developments in technology now offer new opportunities for the collection and assessment of learning in portfolios, for example through the use of electronic portfolios, videos, DVDs, or posters.

Chapters in the HLST Enhancing Book Series ‘Enhancing Student Centred Learning in Business and Management, Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism’ provide examples of using e-portfolios for reflective learning: ‘From Paper to e-Portfolio: Evolution of PDP Support in a Psychology Department,’ and ‘A Comparison of e-Portfolio Used Across Two Different Iterations of an Employability Skills Module’ 

Good overviews of portfolio assessment are given in a papers published by the International Association for Medical Education and the Subject Centre for Languages Linguistics and Areas Studies.

Dr Helen Barrett has extensively researched and published on the use of electronic portfolios and publications. Presentations are available on her web pages.

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