Portfolio and Performance Assessment: Helping Students Evaluate Their Progress as Readers and Writers - Softcover

Farr, Roger C.; Tone, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0155054023 ISBN 13: 9780155054028

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 1998

Synopsis

The second edition of PORTFOLIO AND PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT updates the growing nature of the trend toward portfolio assessment as a highly effective methodology. It effectively develops youngsters as self-assessors while it weds assessment and instruction as inseparable. The text provides a logical approach to developing and relying on either portfolio or performance assessment with the emphasis in the revision shifting more to the selection of an appropriate performance test design and battery. The book is a rich source of ideas for starting, building, and interpreting student language portfolio collections. Ample appendices provides the teacher with targeted sources and black-lined tools for duplication and use in the classroom.

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Synopsis

Looking at the growing trend toward portfolio assessment as an effective methodology, this work aims to develop youngsters as self-assessors while it weds assessment and instruction as inseparable. It provides a logical approach to developing and relying on either portfolio or performance assessment. This second edition emphasizes the selection of an appropriate performance test design and battery.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0155054023
• ISBN 13: 9780155054028
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 368