PORTAFOLIOS, JOURNALS, LETTERS

Presented by Peter Allan

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• A portfolio is a purposeful collection of student work that exhibits the student's efforts, progress, and achievements in one or more areas of the curriculum. The collection must include the following:

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Student participation in selecting contents.

Criteria for selection.

Criteria for judging merits.

Evidence of a student's self-reflection.

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It should represent a collection of students' best work or best efforts, student-selected samples of work experiences related to outcomes being assessed, and documents according growth and development toward mastering identified outcomes.

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Why use a Portfolio?In this new era of performance assessment related to the monitoring of students' mastery of a core curriculum, portfolios can enhance the assessment process by revealing a range of skills and understandings one students' parts; support instructional goals;

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reflect change and growth over a period of time; encourage student, teacher, and parent reflection; and provide for continuity in education from one year to the next. Instructors can use them for a variety of specific purposes, including:

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Encouraging self-directed learning.

Enlarging the view of what is learned.

Fostering learning about learning.

Demonstrating progress toward identified outcomes.

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• Creating an intersection for instruction and assessment.

• Providing a way for students to value themselves as learners.

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• Offering opportunities for peer-supported growth.

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Journals

A journal has several related meanings:

• A daily record of events or business; a private journal is usually referred to as a diary.

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• A newspaper or other periodical, in the literal sense of one published each day.

• Many publications issued at stated intervals, such as magazines, or scholarly pacific journals, academic journals, or the record of the transactions of a

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society, are often called journals. Although journal is sometimes used, erroneously, as a synonym for "magazine", in academic use, a journal refers to a serious, scholarly publication, most often peer-reviewed. A non-scholarly magazine written

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for an educated audience about an industry or an area of professional activity is usually called a professional magazine.

• The word "journalist" for one whose business is writing for the public press has been in use since the end of the 17th century.

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Letters

• Letter (message), a form of written communication, they can be:

• Formal letters Letter of Presentation Letter of Recommendation Letter of Complaint Letter of Achievements

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Letter of Accomplishments Letter of Acknowledgement• Informal letters Letter to a pen-friend E-mails Postcards

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PeterAllan