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Date Posted: 05:07:41 08/13/03 Wed
Author: Ozana
Subject: task 15

Task 15: testing

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

"Portfolios can be used as a tool in the classroom to bring students together, to discuss ideas, and to provide evidence of understanding and the way to apply it. Through critical analysis of their work--and of their peers--students gain insight into other ways of looking at a problem." (p.103). Depending on the purpose, portifolios can have the following items: samples of creative work; tests; quizzes; homework; projects and assignments; audiotapes of oral work; student diary entries; log of work on a particular assignment; self-assessments; comments from peers; and comments from teachers. A portfolio may be a folder containing a student's best pieces and the student's evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the pieces. It may also contain one or more works-in-progress that illustrate the creation of a product, such as an essay, evolving through various stages of conception, drafting, and revision. Portfolios may also be used to compare achievement across classrooms or schools. In all administrative contexts, teachers need administrative support to initiate a portfolio program. They need support material such as folders, file drawers, and access to a photocopy machine, and time to plan, share ideas, and develop strategies. Teachers need not only a thorough understanding of their subject area and instructional skills, but also additional time for planning, conferring with other teachers, developing strategies and materials, meeting with individual students and small groups, and reviewing and commenting on student work. In addition, teachers may need extra space in their classrooms to store students' portfolios or expensive equipment such as video cameras. Portif�lios can also be used to support cooperative teaming by offering an opportunity for students to share and comment on each other's work. For example, a videotape of students speaking French in the classroom can be used to evoke a critical evaluation of each other's conversational skills at various points during the school year.

References:

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, 15:14:49 08/13/03 Wed