Situating Portfolios Kathleen Blake Yancey and Irwin Weiser, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yancey, Kathleen, Author.

Contributor:

Weiser, Irwin.

Yancey, Kathleen Blake, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Composition and exercises--Ability testing--United States.

English language.

Grading and marking (Students)--United States.

Grading and marking (Students).

Portfolios in education--United States.

Portfolios in education.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Yancey and Weiser bring together thirty-one writing teachers from diverse levels of instruction, institutional settings, and regions to create a stimulating volume on the current practice in portfolio writing assessment. Contributors reflect on the explosion in portfolio practice over the last decade, why it happened, what comes next; discuss portfolios in hypertext, the web, and other electronic spaces; and consider emerging trends and issues that are involving portfolios in teacher assessment, faculty development, and graduate student experience.Contributors include Peter Elbow and Pat Belan

Contents:

Reflections an explosion : portfolios in the '90s and beyond / Peter Elbow and Pat Belanoff

The lunar light of student writing : portfolios and literary theory / Robert Leigh Davis

Rethinking portfolios for evaluating writing : issues of assessment and power / Brian Huot and Michael M. Williamson

Kentucky's state-mandated writing portfolios and teacher accountability / Susan Callahan

Teachers and students : reclaiming assessment via portfolios / Sandra Murphy

Establishing sound portfolio practice : reflections on faculty development / Cheryl Evans Ause and Gerilee Nicastro

Of large-mouth milk jugs, cosmic trash compactors, and renewal machines : reflections on a multi-task portfolio assessment / Charlotte W. O'Brien

Portfolio for doctoral candidacy : a veritable alternative / Janice M. Heiges

Behind the scenes : portfolios in a classroom learning community / Mary Ann Smith

Using portfolios to assess and nurture early literacy from a developmental perspective / Sandra J. Stone

Portfolios and flow / Thomas Philion

Producing purposeful portfolios / Mary Perry

Building bridges, closing gaps : using portfolios to reconstruct the academic community / William Condon

Portfolios in law school : creating a community of writers / Susan R. Dailey

Portfolios as a way to encourage reflective practice among preservice English teachers / Robert P. Yagelski

Teacher portfolios : lessons on resistance, readiness, and reflection / Kathleen Blake Yancey

Finding out what's in their heads : using teaching portfolios to assess English education students and programs / C. Beth Burch

Different understanding / Pearl R. Paulson and F. Leon Paulson

Revising our practices : how portfolios help teachers learn / Irwin Weiser

Wedding the technologies of writing portfolios and computers : the challenges of electronic classrooms / Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe

Hypertext authoring course, portfolio assessment, and diversity / Gregory A. Wickliff

Down the yellow chip road : hypertext portfolios in Oz / Katherine M. Fischer

Reflections in reading and evaluating electronic portfolios / Kristine L. Blair and Pamela D. Takayoshi

Portfolios, WAC, Email, and assessment : an inquiry on Portnet / Michael Allen ... [et al.].

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-400).

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ISBN:

9780874213393

0874213398

9780585027661

0585027668

OCLC:

42329319

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access