ERIC Number: ED415246
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1997
Pages: 350
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ISBN: ISBN-1-56676-476-9
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Portfolios: Clarifying, Constructing, and Enhancing.
Johnson, Nancy Jean; Rose, Leonie Marie
This book is a guide to understanding and implementing portfolio assessment in schools and contains checklists, forms, sample letters, rubrics, and inventories. The chapters are: (1) "Defining a Portfolio"; (2) "Evolving Nature of Portfolios"; (3) "Getting Started"; (4) "Clarifying the Role of Self-Assessment"; (5) "Choosing from Multiple Sources for Data Collection"; (6) "Managing the Nuts and Bolts"; (7) "Facing Special Problems"; (8) "Going Beyond the Basics"; and (9) "Soaring: Using Portfolio Data." Five appendixes contain forms, samples, and inventories for use in the implementation of portfolio assessment. (Contains 69 figures and 229 references.) (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrators, Data Collection, Educational Administration, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Portfolio Assessment, Portfolios (Background Materials), Professional Development, Student Evaluation, Teaching Methods, Test Use
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Publication Type: Books; Guides - Non-Classroom
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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