1.) Personal Portfolios:
- Help develop a teacher-student relationship.
- Help student celebrate his/her interests.
- Allow students to present their hobbies, community activities, talents, sports interests, and special skills
- Personal portfolio can contain pictures, awards, videos, and other memorabilia .
- Allow students to make personal goals, reflect upon those goals, and continue to assess their progress through out kindergarten to grade twelve.
2.) Working Portfolios:
- A collection of daily, weekly, monthly or unit work products.
- Framework for self assessment and goal setting.
- Working portfolios are managed by the students.
3.) Record Keeping Portfolios:
- Teacher maintains and keeps the portfolios.
- Contains necessary assessments, evaluation samples, and records.
- The teacher chooses what is in this type of portfolio. Ex: behavioural checklists, observational information, progress reports, and traditional report cards.
4.) Group Portfolios:
- Good place to start for students that are new to the idea of portfolios.
- Different team members contribute individual items, along with group items to demonstrate the effectiveness of the entire group.
- Promote cooperative learning, such as interdependence, individual countability, cooperative behaviours, and team work.
5.) Thematic Portfolios:
- Relates to a unit of study lasting from two to six weeks. Ex: team work or socialization through sport, spacial awareness or self-expression.
6.) Showcase Portfolios:
- A limited number of items are selected to show growth over time. This type of portfolio only houses the student's best work.
7.) Multi-Year Portfolio:
- Student collect items over a cluster of grade levels for two to three years.
- The school stores these portfolios.
- Students can reflect upon their growth over several years.
(Melograno, 2000)
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