Portfolio assessment
Subtitle: uses, cases, scoring, and impact
By: edited by Trudy W. Banta.
Contributors: Banta, Trudy W.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Assessment update collections
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2003
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
Subjects: Portfolios in education; Educational tests and measurements
Description: "Despite the challenges that portfolios present, those who use them prefer them to other methods because they are so versatile and accommodate such rich information. Portfolios can be used by faculty to see first-hand not only what students are learning but how they are learning, by students to reflect on and derive meaning from their educational experiences, and by institutions to assess the effectiveness of courses and curricula, as well as overall effectiveness." "This booklet contains a wealth of information on portfolios, mined from the archives of Assessment Update and made available for the first time in this convenient format. The articles in this booklet, written by some of the best thinkers and practitioners in the field, present the current thinking on portfolio assessment -- and show how portfolios, including Web-based portfolios, have been used at various institutions to assess and improve programs in general education, the major, advising, and overall institutional effectiveness. They explore ways portfolios can be scored, students' perspectives on portfolios, how portfolios changed the faculty culture at one college, and more. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical reference.
Table of contents: title: Why portfolios? / Trudy W. Banta; title: Using portfolios to assess the impact of a curriculum / Richard L. Larson; title: Portfolio assessment : benefits, issues of implementation, and reflections on its use / Lorie Cook-Benjamin; title: Electronic portfolios / Ephraim Schechter, Alec Testa, Douglas Eder; title: Electronic portfolios and the assessment of student learning / Gloria M. Rogers, Timothy Chow; title: The Amsterdam Faculty of Education's digital portfolio / Jacquiline Kösters, Magda Ritzen; title: Student portfolios : effective academic advising tools / Arthur C. Hessler, Susan Kuntz; title: Electronic portfolios for accreditation? / Trudy W. Banta; title: How portfolios show us problems with holistic scoring, but suggest an alternative / Peter Elbow; title: Portfolio sorting : a description and application / Charles W. Spurr, Michael J. Kiphart, Betty J. Miller; title: Involving community in program assessment / W.Tracy Dillon; title: Validating recognition and production measures for the bachelor of science in social work / Frank J. Spicuzza, Maryanne Lynch Cunningham; title: The evaluation of portfolio assessment : a student perspective / Frank J. Spicuzza; title: A change in culture : Pepperdine University's CD-ROM student portfolio project / Don Thompson, Cynthia Cornell Novak.