Personality Portfolio Project
- Grades
- Grades 10–12, High School
- File type
- Microsoft Word
- Editable
- Yes
- Subject
- Social Studies, History, Psychology
- Topic
- personality, portfolio
- Resource types
- Activities, Projects
- Editable
- Yes
About this resource
What's inside this resource
This resource is a Personality Portfolio Project.
Objective:
- Students will create a personality portfolio that demonstrates their understanding of the many varied personality theories that were discussed this year.
- The student is the subject.
- They can use any digital or non-digital program they wish to put together their portfolio.
- Their final submission should be a HARD COPY PRINTED OUT for ease of grading.
There are steps for students to follow and a rubric is included to assist students.
They must complete all 8 steps of the portfolio.
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In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Students take and compare multiple personality inventories (MBTI, 16PF, IPIP NEO/Big Five) and evaluate their own results against each theory.
Students apply Freudian dream analysis to a personal dream, distinguishing manifest and latent content.
Students analyze peer-collected personality-trait descriptions ('30 slips') to evaluate a personality theory's validity.
Students conduct and interpret two projective assessments — an ink-blot analysis and a TAT-style image analysis — on themselves or a peer.
Students evaluate Alfred Adler's birth-order theory against their own personality traits.
Teaching tips
Assign the '30 Slips' item early, since it requires students to collect 30 peer/family descriptions before analyzing them, and needs lead time outside class.
Score the project with the included rubric, which weights Item 1 at 15 points, the remaining six content items at 5 points each, and mechanics plus format/creativity at 5 points each, for 55 points total.
Require the printed hard-copy submission specified in the assignment, since it is explicitly framed as easier to grade than a digital file.
Skills covered
Personality-theory application — students take and interpret multiple standardized personality inventories (MBTI, 16PF, Big Five) against their own self-perception.
Dream analysis (Freudian theory) — students identify manifest and latent content in a personal dream and evaluate the method's reliability and validity.
Projective testing — students create and interpret an ink-blot analysis and a TAT-style image-based personality inference.
Evidence-based reflection — across all eight items, students cite specific results or examples to support or challenge a given personality theory.
Good to know
Questions teachers ask about this resource
What happens if a student doesn't remember any dreams for the dream-analysis item?
The assignment allows substituting a family member's dream for the analysis if the student doesn't dream or can't recall one.
How does the '30 Slips' activity work?
Students hand out 30 small slips of paper to people who know them well or not so well, and are instructed not to read any of the returned slips until all 30 have been collected, then analyze which traits appeared most and least often.
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Core concepts
Core concepts
personality theories
projective testing
trait reliability and validity
self-assessment
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