Schools should choose a presentation format for graduation portfolio review that supports students with different abilities and supports schools as they develop a review process. The suggested formats represent different levels of rigor in oral communication and critical thinking skills and should be considered when determining the applied learning proficiencies measured in a graduation portfolio. Schools may also use different formats for presentation to accommodate newly transferred, ESL, and IEP students.

Things to Consider

Formats for the presentation of a graduation portfolio include:

• Student Graduation Portfolio Presentation
• Science Fair approach – reviewers walk through and evaluate individual students who answer questions and give less formal presentations
• Presentation to a group of school community members
• Student Graduation Portfolio Defense where students present and defend the evidence in their portfolios to a review panel