Exploring Lecturers’ Understanding On Portfolio Assessment

This research explores lecturers' understanding of portfolio assessment to explore their perception in portfolio assessment during teaching and learning process based on their experiences. The research design used in this study was descriptive qualitative to describe the information from the lecturers about portfolio assessment. The purposive sampling technique was used to collect the data through a semi-structured interview with three lecturers of English courses of the Department of English Language Education at UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh. The data were analyzed with free coding and interpreted. Research findings showed that there were indicated that the lecturer's perception of using portfolio assessment which divided into two themes; lecturers' perception about portfolio assessment and the portfolio assessment used by lecturers to assess students' achievement. From the result of interviewed, there were three lecturers' perceptions of portfolio assessment in this research; there were advantages, problems, and disadvantages of used portfolio assessment. Further, the research findings also showed that the lecturers used several types of portfolio assessments depending on each subject they teach. Therefore, the combined assessment helps the lecturer adjust the assessment based on the material, period, learning content, learning materials, and learning outcomes.