Portfolios Plus
A Critical Guide to Alternative Assessment
- Linda Mabry - Washington State University, WA
July 1999 | 208 pages | Corwin
This book is intended to help educators in developing and implementing assessment systems to recognize the many options available for consideration. The author promotes reconsideration of testing assumptions, approaches, and their implications by educators and the educational measurement community, including the intended audience - measurement researchers and students.
PART ONE: ASSESSMENT, THE ENGINE AND ODOMETER OF REFORM
Trends and Contexts
Paradigms
Purposes
Scoring
Equity
PART TWO: EXAMPLES OF ASSESSMENTS
Emily Dickinson's Literacy Portfolios
LEAP's Curriculum-Based Assessment of Integrated Curriculum Units
Walden III's Rite of Passage Experience (ROPE)
Eagle's Wing Projects
Pan Terra's Learning Contracts
PART THREE: THE PORTFOLIO PLANNER