Portfolio - component part of the cognitive competences assessment system for pupils and students

Abstract

Portfolio for all subjects in the pre-university and university education system plays an important role in the educational process, being justified by the need to measure the efficiency of the training process, to obtain relevant information on pupils and student outcomes. The portfolio provides the necessary feedback to all those involved in education. Portfolio is a set of actions and operations that create good mood, awakens motivation to explore, discover and independently acquire new content or in co-operation. The portfolio is made in a certain context, which depends a lot on the age of the one who draws it up, on the specificity of the discipline, taxonomic level of the factors that determine the choice of the teaching strategy by the teacher. The portfolio confirms what the pupils/students know and what they are capable of mastering.