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50 Years of ERIC
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Assessment Portfolios as Opportunities for Teacher Learning
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Gearhart, Maryl; Osmundson, Ellen – Educational Assessment, 2009
This article is an analysis of the role of assessment portfolios in teacher learning. Over 18 months, 23 science teachers developed, implemented, and evaluated assessments to track student learning, supported by portfolio tasks and resources, grade-level colleagues, and team facilitators. Evidence of teacher learning included (a) portfolios of a…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Student Evaluation, Science Teachers, Portfolio Assessment
Developing Expertise with Classroom Assessment in K-12 Science: Learning to Interpret Student Work. Interim Findings from a 2-Year Study
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Gearhart, Maryl; Nagashima, Sam; Pfotenhauer, Jennifer; Clark, Shaunna; Schwab, Cheryl; Vendlinski, Terry; Osmundson, Ellen; Herman, Joan; Bernbaum, Diana J. – Educational Assessment, 2006
This article reports findings on growth in 3 science teachers' expertise with interpretation of student work over 1 year of participation in a program. The program was designed to strengthen classroom assessment. Using a framework for classroom assessment expertise, we analyze patterns of teacher learning, and the roles of the professional program…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Science Teachers, Knowledge Level, Instructional Materials
Introduction: Portfolios and Large-Scale Assessment.
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Calfee, Robert; Gearhart, Maryl – Educational Assessment, 1998
The two articles in this special section, combined with two previous articles, discuss the use of portfolios in large-scale assessment. Ten years ago, there was great interest in portfolio assessment in state testing programs, but no large-scale program relies on portfolios at the present time. These articles continue to consider their uses. (SLD)
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Portfolio Assessment, Portfolios (Background Materials), State Programs
Portfolio Assessment: Whose Work Is It? Issues in the Use of Classroom Assignments for Accountability.
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Gearhart, Maryl; Herman, Joan L. – Educational Assessment, 1998
Explores issues of whose work is actually being evaluated when raters outside the classroom context make judgments about students based on work composed with the support of peers, teachers, and parents. Data from an evaluation of a statewide assessment and a study of scoring elementary school writing portfolios illustrate the issues. (SLD)
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Education, Parent Influence, Peer Influence
Issues in Portfolio Assessment: Assessing Writing Processes from Their Products.
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Gearhart, Maryl; Wolf, Shelby A. – Educational Assessment, 1997
The ways that portfolio evidence of student competence in the writing processes is created and interpreted were studied in four classrooms during the preliminary trials of the California Learning Assessment System portfolios. Data from interviews with six students and two elementary school teachers are used to explore student portfolios and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Portfolio Assessment, Student Evaluation, Test Construction