Task 15 -- Communicative approach

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Date Posted: 17:58:08 08/15/03 Fri
Author: Renata Rodrigues
Subject: Task 15

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

Portfolios can be used as a helpful tool in the classroom to evaluate students' progress, since they are representations of classroom-based performance and they are also a good way to make students think about how their future work can be improved. According to Sweet, portfolios can serve as a vehicle for enhancing student awareness of the strategies for thinking about and producing work - both inside and beyond the classroom. Therefore, by means of the portfolio assessment, one may realise that it helps to develop the autonomy of the learners, it raises awareness on the students, since they analyse their work critically and then they gain insight into other ways of looking at a problem and it also provides the teacher with student growth in the target language.
In conclusion, portfolios are regarded as useful assessment tool, for they improve student teaming and they promote student production, perception and reflection in projects. Portfolios also contain materials which establish a baseline of students' foreign language ability and growth. Thus they present important features which emphasise the student's role in constructing understanding and awareness.

References:

Sweet, D. "Student Portfolios: Classroom Uses"

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

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

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