Abstract:
The portfolio is an alternative method that synthesizes the work of student assessment to a particular school discipline
for a period of time (a phase of a semester, a semester, school year, etc.). Making pieces that are part of a portfolio gives
each student the opportunity to work at your own pace and to apply their theoretical knowledge and practical skills,
talent and creativity. Also, the student has the opportunity to be actively involved in achieving individual, pair or group
work tasks proposed, but also to evaluate oneself. Assessment of the components of portfolio gives the teacher an
insight into student progress in school cognitive level, attitude and behavior. The aim of this paper is the proposal of
mini-portfolios content that can be achieved by secondary school students in biology. In the research we used analysis
method curricular documents, given curriculum and textbooks developed for middle school biology discipline. Given
the information content of the subjects studied biology in secondary school, we mentioned components mini-portfolios
that can be achieved by students in fifth grade for each class of higher plants studied, and in sixth grade for each class
vertebrate, respectively. The varied work tasks listed in the proposed mini-portfolios was followed proper
understanding and ownership of content by students studying biology concepts, systematization of knowledge learned,
stimulating students' different intelligences, giving them the pleasure to participate in the realization of components, and
increasing the student’s ability of self-assessment
