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Writing Portfolios in the Classroom: Policy and Practice, Promise and Peril

Writing Portfolios in the Classroom: Policy and Practice, Promise and Peril

Calfee, Robert
Perfumo, Pamela

Paperback

General EducationTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 0805818367
ISBN13: 9780805818369
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 1 1996
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.18 Depth: 7.54
Language: English
This volume presents chapters by researchers, practitioners, and policymakers who study the impact of classroom portfolios in the assessment of writing achievement by elementary and middle grade students.

The focus throughout the volume is on the tension between classroom assessment and externally mandated testing. It presents the efforts of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to understand the impact of classroom portfolios for the assessment of writing achievement by elementary and middle grade students. Under the auspices of the Center for the Study of Writing, the editors conducted a national survey of exemplary portfolio projects, arranged for a series of video visits, and held several working conferences. The result of this work is a broad-ranging tale: the aspirations of teachers and administrators to move the machinery of schooling in the direction of more authentic and engaging tasks, the puzzlement of students when they realize that the assignments are real and that the teacher may not have a right answer in mind, and the tensions between ivory-tower ideas and everyday classroom practice.

Divided into four sections, this research volume:

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