Task 15 -- Communicative approach

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Date Posted: 15:31:55 08/14/03 Thu
Author: Ione Mendes
Subject: Task 15

How can we use portfolios to evaluate our students' progress?
Portfolio is an important assessment tool because it demonstrates, effectively, the learning process throughout a course. It differs from traditional evaluation process because it is also a manner of promoting a reflective moment to students, whenever they want to or whenever they can do that. Moreover, it helps students a lot in the development of criteria for a good job, giving them basis to justify their choices in diverse circumstances of the learning process; it is what we called self-assessment. Depending on the purpose it is used portfolios can be used to involve parents in the learning process. Teachers also can have many advantages in using it, because it works as a parameter to compare schools, classrooms, etc. We can use it divided into 3 parts: collection, selection and reflection. At first, students are supposed to collect a great amount of activities developed during a course (it must be based on the content they have dealt with in the course). It does not mean that students are going to collect only the activities they think are good, but also they could collect those ones they consider as terrible. This part can be considered the selective part. Finally they will reflect on it. They can use a journal to describe their feelings about the learning process expressing what is positive or negative in the process. Portfolios give place to individual moment but it is also enriched if shared in the group. Obviously the portfolios must be adapted considering some aspects such as: curricula, students� age, grade levels and even administrative contexts. At last I would like to add what Allwright (1988) has argued about portfolios: �greater quality of learning can be ensured by putting the control over learning in the place where the learning is occurring, namely in the mind of the learner.�

Webliography

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/OR/ConsumerGuides/classuse.html
http://www.stanford.edu/group/CFLP/research/portfolio/portfolio1.html

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