The use of portfólios in university pedagogy: a experience in nursing courses

The experience of building a matrix for analysing portfolios in a course of study with a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing is described, highlighting multiple and mutual learnings of the process. One of the challenges is to potentiate the portfolios use, avoiding that it suffers from a subjectivism that hampers the existence of a dialogue between student and teacher which needs evidence, as without which the educational dimension of assessment is weakened. The study systematizes principles which guarantee a logic of innovative assessment constituting itself as an educational resource for both teachers and students involved in the process, thus contributing to the exercise of reflection upon the compiled and produced material in the portfolio.