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A 3 annotated bibliography that describes 5 articles on portfolios and their use in assessment processes.
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with electronic portfolio and online assessment management systems. A very informative source, this paper differentiates between electronic portfolio and online assessment management systems, while also noting differences between electronic portfolio
and their more traditional paper counterparts. The author discusses the component part of an electronic portfolio system and various ways that such portfolios have been assessed. The section on differentiating
between portfolio and assessment management systems is particularly informative and this discussion outlines why this differentiation is important, explaining how confusion between the two terms makes it difficult for research
to validate pedagogical practices. Farr, Roger & Tone, Bruce. Portfolio and Performance Assessment: Helping Students Evaluate Their Progress as Readers and Writers, Second Edition. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace. ED413585.
No date. Accessed June 16, 2006. This book responds to the continuing demand for better assessment of authentic language use and these authors focus on the
fact that portfolio must first be a successful and useful component of instruction before they can be a useful component for assessment. As this suggests, the emphasis of Farr and
Tone is that portfolios are not something--as in the case of artists--something intended purely for "show," but are rather "working" portfolios, which should indicate the students active involvement in
analyzing portfolio contents. The point of this text is to help instructors in training students to be self-assessors, which are capable of monitoring their language progress. The ERIC abstract on
this book lists numerous new features in the second edition that should be helpful to educators looking to this text for guidance in portfolio use. Garfield, Joan B. "Beyond
testing and grading: using assessment to improve student learning." Journal of Statistics Education 2(1)(1994). No date. Accessed June 6, 2006. . This article discusses how traditional
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