A Portfolio is more than the collection of work sheets

A portfolio is a record of the pupil's process of learning:
what the child has learned and how he/she has gone about learning.
But also how he/she thinks, analyzes, produces, creates.
And how he/she interacts intellectually, emotionally and socially
with others.
Arter and Spandel (1991) define the portfolio as a purposeful
collection of student work that exhibits to the student, or others,
the efforts or achievement in one or more areas.
The material in a portfolio should be organized by chronological
order and category. All information in the portfolio has to be dated,
arranging the assignments, checklist, test results, and other
information should be simple.
Appropriate assessment of young children should involve the children
themselves, parents, and teachers. The portfolio is a tool to
stimulate self-refection.
The portfolio method promotes a shared approach to making decisions
that will affect children's attitudes toward work and school in
general.
The portfolio is more than a collection of work sheets and exercise
books taken home several times a year.
One of my favorite workshops is the development of portfolio's.