Portfolio Defense
Defending Learning, Defining Growth
Empower students with Portfolio-Defense
“Portfolio-defense” is a concept that combines two powerful practices: portfolio assessment and defense of learning. It’s a performance assessment that challenges learners to make and support claims about targeted skills by 1) curating samples of their work into a portfolio and 2) defending their claims in an evaluated presentation.
Portfolios are an effective and flexible form of assessment because they can wrap themselves around any kind of evidence, and they enroll the learner in the curation of that evidence. Defenses of learning naturally function as rites of passage, making them powerfully motivating and intensely meaningful for young people.
ELP helps schools and districts all over the country to design and implement portfolio-defense systems, customized to their context. Within one school year, we facilitate a process that has your students preparing portfolios and defending their learning.
Contact us to learn how we can help you design or improve your portfolio-defense system.
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Authentic Evidence of Learning
Customized System Design
Defenses as Rites of Passage
The Impact of a Porfolio Defense
Partnering to Redefine Learning
By redefining assessment through authentic, performance‑based measures, we unlock deeper learning and drive more equitable outcomes.
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