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Portfolios. What are portfolios?. What’s the difference between portfolios and a folder full of student work? Purposeful Systematic and well organized Pre-established guidelines Students select some materials Scoring criteria Conferences. Why portfolios?. Promotes self-assessment
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What are portfolios? • What’s the difference between portfolios and a folder full of student work? • Purposeful • Systematic and well organized • Pre-established guidelines • Students select some materials • Scoring criteria • Conferences
Why portfolios? • Promotes self-assessment • Enhances motivation – Why? • Individualized • Focus is on improvement • Concrete examples for parents • Flexibility • Personal – more contact with the teacher • Why not to use them? • Time consuming, how? • Unreliable • Students select – good or bad?
Kinds of Portfolios • What are the three kinds of portfolios mentioned by McMillan? • Showcase • Documentation • Evaluation • What kind of portfolio is this? • Does this fit the criteria of Portfolios we’ve discussed?
Three stages of Port. Assessment?? • Planning • What’s the purpose? • Match with learning targets • ID the physical structure • Determine sources of content, • What kinds of things would you include in a documentation portfolio as opposed to a showcase portfolio?
Implementing • Review with students • How might students react when you announce a portfolio assessment? • P. 244, “I hate the idea of doing a portfolio.” • “Why am I doing this it will be so boring?” • Why might they react this way?
Implementing • Supplying Portfolio Content • Teacher chooses or students? • Pros/cons of each? • Quantity? • Table of contents, Why?
Implementing • Self-evaluations • Why are these important? • Why are they difficult? • Get students to be comfortable, confident and accurate in self-assessment, How? • Let’s try it.
Evaluation • What kinds of things can be evaluated in a portfolio? • Completeness • Structure • Individual entries • Entire contents
Evaluation • See p. 250 Personal Assessment of Portfolios • What do you like about this? • What is one thing you would change about this assessment? • Seep. 253 and p. 254 • Which of these is would you prefer to use as a teacher? Why?
A practicar • You are teaching a high school Spanish class. Students seem capable but unmotivated. • You want to use portfolios with your students because you don’t think tests really show what students can do and students complain about them a lot. • With a partner determine a “primary purpose” for your portfolio assessment. • Let’s brainstorm things that your assessment might include.