Situating Portfolios: Four Perspectives
- Writing Assessment, faculty development, faculty, Digital Research
Edited by Kathleen Blake Yancey and Irwin Weiser
Yancey and Weiser bring together thirty-one writing teachers from diverse levels of instruction, institutional settings, and regions to create a stimulating volume on the current practice in portfolio writing assessment. Contributors reflect on the explosion in portfolio practice over the last decade, why it happened, what comes next; discuss portfolios in hypertext, the web, and other electronic spaces; and consider emerging trends and issues that are involving portfolios in teacher assessment, faculty development, and graduate student experience.
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Situating Portfolios: An Introduction, Kathleen Blake Yancey and Irwin Weiser
Part I: Theory and Power
Chapter 1. Reflections on an Explosion: Portfolios in the '90s and Beyond, Peter Elbow and Pat Belanoff
Chapter 2. The Lunar Light of Student Writing: Portfolios and Literary Theory, Robert Leigh Davis
Chapter 3. Rethinking Portfolios for Evaluating Writing: Issues of Assessment and Power, Brian Huot and Michael M. Williamson
Chapter 4. Kentucky's State-Mandated Writing Portfolios and Teacher Accountability, Susan Callahan
Chapter 5. Teachers and Students: Reclaiming Assessment Via Portfolios, Sandra Murphy
Chapter 6. Establishing Sound Portfolio Practice: Reflections on Faculty Development, Cheryl Evans Ause and Gerilee Nicastro
Chapter 7. Of Large-Mouth Milk Jugs, Cosmic Trash Compactors, and Renewal Machines: Reflections on a Multi-task Portfolio Assessment, Charlotte W. O'Brien
Chapter 8. Portfolio for Doctoral Candidacy: A Veritable Alternative, Janice M Heiges
Part II: Pedagogy
Chapter 9. Behind the Scenes: Portfolios in a Classroom Learning Community, Mary Ann Smith
Chapter 10. Using Portfolios to Assess and Nurture Early Literacy from a Developmental Perspective, Sandra J Stone
Chapter 11. Portfolios and Flow, Thomas Philion
Chapter 12. Producing Purposeful Portfolios, Mary Perry
Chapter 13. Building Bridges, Closing Gaps: Using Portfolios to Reconstruct the Academic Community, William Condon
Chapter 14. Portfolios in Law School: Creating a Community of Writers, Susan R. Dailey
Part III: Teaching and Professional Development
Chapter 15. Portfolios as a Way to Encourage Reflective Practice Among Preservice English Teachers, Robert P. Yagelski
Chapter 16. Teacher Portfolios: Lessons in Resistance, Readiness, and Reflection, Kathleen Blake Yancey
Chapter 17. Finding Out What's in Their Heads: Using Teaching Portfolios to Assess English Education Students-and Programs, C. Beth Burch
Chapter 18. A Different Understanding, Pearl R. Paulson and E Leon Paulson
Chapter 19. Revising Our Practices: How Portfolios Help Teachers Learn, Irwin Weiser
Part IV: Technology
Chapter 20. Wedding the Technologies of Writing Portfolios and Computers: The Challenges of Electronic Classrooms, Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe
Chapter 21. A Hypertext Authoring Course, Portfolio Assessment, and Diversity, Gregory A. Wickliff
Chapter 22. Down the Yellow Chip Road: Hypertext Portfolios in Oz, Katherine M. Fischer
Chapter 23. Reflections in Reading and Evaluating Electronic Portfolios, Kristine L. Blair and Pamela Takayoshi
Chapter 24. Portfolios, WAC, Email, and Assessment: An Inquiry on Portnet, Michael Allen, William Condon, Marcia Dickson, Cheryl Forbes, George Meese, and Kathleen Blake Yancey
Publication Information: Yancey, Kathleen Blake, & Irwin, Weiser (Eds.). (1997). Situating Portfolios: Four Perspectives. Utah State University Press. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/118
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