Task #15 -- Communicative approach

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Date Posted: 08:40:08 08/15/03 Fri
Author: Daniela Elisa Duarte Ferreira
Subject: Task #15

How can we use portfolios to evaluate students� progress?

Evaluating students' progress through portfolios is a way of focusing on the learning process, instead of centering in the product that comes in the final test at the end of the term. Portfolios can be used as a folder of activities developed by the students throughout the course. Students keep some or all of the activities developed in each of the four skills of the language (speaking can be recorded in a video or audio tape) and through the evolution of the course, they can use those to reflect on how they have improved in each skill. I myself have tried to evaluate some of my groups through portfolios and I believe that it offered students many possibilities to reflect on their own progress during the semester. We did the portfolios by saving in a folder one activity from every class. In each class we worked on the four skills, however, we picked only one activity each day. Moreover, it is a very important point to discuss this way of evaluation with the students previously, so they are aware that their progress is not going to be checked in a specific class, but in every class.

References:

SWEET, David. �Student Portfolios: Classroom Uses�. In: Education Research CONSUMER GUIDE, n 8, nov. 1993.
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/OR/ConsumerGuides/classuse.html
David Sweet

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