Task 15 -- Communicative approach

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Date Posted: 16:00:53 08/12/03 Tue
Author: jara
Subject: Task 15

How can we use portfolios to evaluate our students� progress?

Portfolios are a way to show one�s work by a collection of pieces. Architects, photographers and artists firstly used portfolios in order to show to a client or audience what the work is about. However, portfolios can be adapted to language classes in order to assess the students� progress and also because students have a tendency to save work in notebooks and notes.
In fact, the teacher should have in mind that one purpose of the portfolios is to make students collect their works, select and finally reflect on them. Furthermore, the teacher should take into account that he/she might have criteria while asking students to make their portfolios. The first one is the age. Older students have frequently more skills to make a more elaborated work than younger students. The content is the second point. Each school�s curriculum may differ, so the portfolios must be built according to the different curricula. The last point is that the teachers must provide to students a drawback correspondent to their works, in order to make the students think about the path their learning went through.
With the portfolios in hand, the teacher has a good material, which was made with students� involvement, selection and reflection about their learning. This material provides to the teacher an effective way to assess each student�s needs, since each portfolio is different from another. At the same time, the teacher diffuses in the students a critical thinking concerning to their past and future learning. The teachers have finally a good opportunity to evaluate their goals as teachers, since any student in his/her porfolio could not present one specific point taught.

Sources:
http://www.ed.gov.pubs/OR/ConsumerGuides/classuse.html

http://www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/hancoc01.html

http://www.stanford.edu/group/CFLP/research/portfolio/portfolio1.html

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Re: Task 15 -- Vera Menezes, 15:21:34 08/13/03 Wed