Student Portfolio

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There are many portfolio resources online, and if you're interested in learning more, these are some of the better ones:
The National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing conducts research on important topics related to K-12 educational Testing. CRESST presents a wealth of assessment-related information in a variety of formats.

National Assessment Governing Board. Learn about the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the only ongoing, national progress report, also known as "The Nation's Report Card."

"Improving America's Schools: Creating Better Student Assessments," Spring 1996. One of a series of Newsletters on Issues in School Reform from the U.S. Department of Education. Provides an overview of the issues affecting state student-assessment systems, including assessment requirements under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1994.

"The Use and Misuse of Test Scores in Reform Debate." This 1994 RAND policy brief points out that "over the last two decades, test scores have been cited, variously, as sure and certain signs of U.S. educational decline or as indicators that particular types of reform are 'working.'"

"Testing Writing on Computers: An Experiment Comparing Student Performance on Tests Conducted via Computer and via Paper-and-Pencil," a 1997 abstract from the Education Policy Analysis Archives, examines a new development within the "authentic assessment" debate--the use of computers to administer tests which require students to generate responses to open-ended items. How might the computer bridge the gap between standardized and portfolio assessment?

"Creating Accountability at the School Level," and "Can Performance-Based Assessments Improve Urban Schooling?" from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education.

The Educational Testing Service offers information and research on assessment-related issues. From ETS: "Too Much Testing of the Wrong Kind; Too Little of the Right Kind in K-12 Education," "Reinventing Assessment: Speculations on the Future of Large-Scale Educational Testing," and "New Forms of Assessment."

FairTest, an advocacy organization committed to ensuring that national assessment practices are free from bias, recently released "Testing Our Children: A Report Card on State Assessment Systems," a 1999 analysis comparing state assessment practices against the standards established by a coalition of education and civil rights groups working together through the National Forum on Assessment.

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