Having completed a portfolio myself in college to graduate with an education degree, I can give an honest opinion about whether or not I feel they are vaild assessment tools.
I do feel they can be a great and also not so great when assessing people.
First of all, it is a good way to see a persons best work. Portfolios give people the opportunity to show professors/employers "what they've got". However, they can also be a good way to "fool" a person into thinking you can do great things, with the chance of possibly not living up to the portfolio expectations. Last, in my experiences in education, very few employers actually look at student portfolios because they know sometimes it is nothing more than "fluff".
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