Task 15 -- Communicative approach

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Date Posted: 06:24:47 08/11/03 Mon
Author: Fl�via da Cruz Moreira
Subject: Task 15

Task 15

How can we use portfolios to evaluate our students' progress?

Portfolios can be very useful to evaluate students' progress, especially because through the different activities that it may involve, in the four skills, the teacher can have an idea of the real progress of the class and work on the difficulties. In order to make portfolios really useful to evaluate students it should have some characteristics. First of all, the teacher should make clear to the students what he intend with the portfolios. Secondly, the students should establish the characteristics of the works that will be included in the portfolios, what a good work should have, so they may start to pursue these features in their own work and see what they could improve. Thirdly, portfolios should be true to the classroom environment reflecting what they are learning and practicing. Finally, another characteristic of the portfolios is that evaluation is not restricted to the teacher, but the students as well; they will evaluate their own work and their peers', since they will have the opportunity to reflect on them and a second chance to work on them to improve.

References:

Hancock, Charles R. Alternative Assessment and Second Language Study: What and Why? http://www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/hancoc01.html

Sweet, David. Student Portfolios: Classroom Uses. http://www.ed.gov/pubs/OR/ConsumerGuides/classuse.html

Development and Implementation of Student Portfolios in Foreign Language Programs. http://www.stanford.edu/group/CFLP/research/portfolio/portfolio1.html

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