Portfolio Assessment to Enhance Students' Achievement in Learning Physical Education

Students' achievement in learning physical education has always been measured using traditional assessment. The assessment, however is considered partial as it can only assess a few parts of the whole learning activity. It usually results in the outcome without considering the learning processes. Portfolio assessment appears to be an alternative to assess students' achievement as well as performance authentically especially in psychomotor domain. Using this type of assessment, teachers will be able to capture students' learning processes in its entirety. This is a quasi-experimental study with randomized pretest-posttest control group design. The populations for this study was six classes of eighth graders and the samples were two classes selected using cluster random sampling. The data is collected by measuring students' learning achievement in psychomotor domains. Result of data analysis shows that, portfolio assessment is more effective than traditional assessment to enhance students' learning achievement in the psychomotor domains. Finally, this study suggests that portfolio assessment should be used in teaching and learning physical education since this type of assessment depict students' learning processes comprehensively.