This is beginning to be a focus in education. Professional organizations are collaborating on standards for learning, testing, and assessment and holding districts, students and teachers accountable for the project. The organizations has to make clear what the students need to know. All schools must provide a description of standards so that all students have a fair chance. The portfolios replace testing as students document their work in each subject.
Teachers assign grades or write narrative reports.
Teachers and the office are evaluated growth in individuals. The portfolio go home to parents and students go over it. The parent calls to make a response and the portfolio can be the basis for the conference. The portfolio can then be passed on to another school letting the teacher know about the student before the student enters the classroom. How do principals and parents make sense of portfolio reports.