| Description |
xxiv, 315 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-308). |
| Contents |
I. Portfolios for proficiency testing -- 1. State University of New York at Stony Brook portfolio-based evaluation program / Peter Elbow and Pat Belanoff -- 2. Using Portfolios to Increase Collaboration and Community in a Writing Program / Pat Belanoff and Peter Elbow -- 3. Portfolios as a follw-up option in a proficiency-testing program / Dennis Holt and Nancy Westrich Baker -- 4. Implementing a portfolio system / David Smit, Patricia Kolonosky, and Kathryn Seltzer -- 5. Evaluation for empowerment : A portfolio proposal for Alaska / Joan K. Wauters -- 6. Using the portfolio to meet state-mandated assessment / Roberta Rosenberg -- 7. Step by step : The development in British schools of assessment by portfolio / Patrick Scott -- 8. Portfolios and the M.A. in English / Bonnie Hain -- II. Program assessment -- 9. Metacognition and the use of portfolios / Karen Mills-Courts and Minda Rae Amiran -- 10. Bridges to academic goals : A look at returning adult portfolios / Anne M. Sheehan and Francine Dempsey -- 11. An echo of genesis : An assessment of the business-writing portfolio / Judith Remy Leder -- 12. Using portfolios in the assessment of writing in the academic disciplines / Richard L. Larson -- III. Classroom portfolios -- 13. Bring practice in line with theory : Using portfolio grading in the composition classroom / Jeffrey Sommers -- 14. Portfolios : Solution to a problem / Kathy McClelland -- 15. A basic writer's portfolio / Sharon Hileman and Beverly case -- 16. A portfolio approach to teaching a biology-linked basic writing course / Pamela Gay -- 17. Portfolios Evolving : Background and variations in sixth- through twelfth-grade classrooms / Roberta Camp and Denise Stavis Levine -- 18. Portfolios as a vehicle for student empowerment and teacher change / Kerry Weinbaum -- 19. Going up the creek without a canoe : Using portfolios to train new teachers of college writing / Wendy Bishop -- IV. Political issues -- 20. Introducing a portfolio-based writing assessment progress through problems / William Condon and Liz Hamp-Lyons -- 21. Large-scale portfolio assessment : Ideological sensitivity and institutional change / Chris M. Anson and Robert L. Brown, Jr. -- 22. The WPA, the portfolio system, and academic freedom : A cautionary tale with an optimistic ending / Marcia Dickson -- 23. Writing without testing / Cherry Armstrong Smith. |
| Subject |
Educational tests and measurements -- United States.
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Educational tests and measurements. |
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United States. |
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English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching -- Evaluation.
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English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching -- Evaluation. |
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Portfolios in education.
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Portfolios in education. |
| Added Author |
Belanoff, Pat.
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Dickson, Marcia.
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| ISBN |
0867092750 |
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