Portfolio
and Performance Assessment: Helping Students Evaluate Their Progress
as Readers and Writers Bruce Tone & Roger C. Farr (1998)
Wadsworth Publishing
Portfolio and Performance Assessment is a source of ideas for starting,
building, and
interpreting student language portfolio collections. The appendices
provides the teacher with targeted sources and black-lined tools for
duplication and use in the classroom.
Power and
Portfolios: Best Practices for High School Classrooms Jim Mahoney
Heinemann Publishing
Power and Portfolios shows how to structure a classroom around the use
of portfolios. Jim Mahoney has written about the practices of the writer's
and reader's workshop and how to
create a classroom that is student-centered. The book contains many
student samples.
Portfolios Plus: A Critical Guide to Alternative Assessment Linda Mabry (1999)
Reviewed by: Horace. Vol.18, #2. Winter 2002
This book review provides an overview of Portfolios Plus and suggests that it will "empower teachers to appreciate the strengths of complex assessment systems and to apprehend the limitations of standardized tests."
