Portfolio Assessment and Descriptive Writing

Portfolios have been most widely used in the teaching of reading and writing, with a strong focus on classroom instruction, student ownership and self-evaluation, and teacher autonomy (Carter et al., 1991; Graves, 1983). More recently, portfolios have been proposed and adopted as statewide student assessment management tools in addition to or instead of standardized achievement test data (Baron, 1992; Brewer, 1990; O'Neil, 1992; Rothman, 1990). Provided that the purpose of portfolio contents is to expand understanding of a student's growth based on multiple measures, different kinds of test and non-test data can be included in a portfolio. Portfolios might also contain required information for state- or district- wide systems, but these data need not dominate or divert portfolio assessment from being used to inform classroom instruction (Paesani, 2006).

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Fatemeh Alipanahi recibió un doctorado en TESL de la Universidad Allameh Tabatabai, Teherán-Irán, en marzo de 2000, su maestría de la Universidad Bloomington de Indiana (Estados Unidos) y su licenciatura de la Universidad Tabriz de Irán. En general, ha sido una estudiante sobresaliente. Es una experimentada profesora de TESL. Fue profesora asistente a tiempo completo durante 30 años en la Universidad de Zanjan.