Using Portfolios To Assess Students in an Undergraduate Teacher Education Course: What Did the Students and Instructor Learn?

Autor/inn/en	Dutt-Doner, Karen M.; Personett, Christy
Titel	Using Portfolios To Assess Students in an Undergraduate Teacher Education Course: What Did the Students and Instructor Learn?
Quelle	(1997), (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Conferences; Decision Making; Educational Assessment; Educational Experience; Educational Objectives; Higher Education; Portfolio Assessment; Portfolios (Background Materials); Student Attitudes; Student Evaluation; Teacher Education; Undergraduate Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Bildungserfahrung; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Portfoliobeurteilung; Schülerverhalten; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung
Abstract	The decisions teachers make about what to assess and how to assess it send messages to students about what is important. Portfolio assessment is a viable alternative for assessing students' understanding while focusing on the process of learning. In this study, 283 students in an undergraduate teacher education course over 3 years developed portfolios. Researchers wanted to understand student experiences in developing portfolios and to refine the portfolio process. Data were collected from student reflections, portfolio conferences, final course evaluations, and evaluations after each portfolio review. Almost all of the students (275 of the 283) reported that developing the portfolio and conferencing with the instructor was a great experience. Many students expressed a high degree of satisfaction in the portfolio as a demonstration of what they had learned. Students felt that the portfolio reflected individuality and made them reflect on their work and teaching. They also thought that conferences helped them prepare for actual teaching interviews. Portfolio assessment helped these students address goals for a course and demonstrate how these goals had been met in the course of the semester. An appendix lists some goals for teacher portfolio use. (Contains 34 references.) (SLD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC