ERIC Number: EJ752931
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Publication Date: 2005-Jun
Pages: 35
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Portfolios, Power, and Ethics
Lynch, Brian; Shaw, Peter
TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, v39 n2 p263-297 Jun 2005
Portfolios have been used in a variety of ways for assessing student work. In education, generally, and more specifically in second language education, portfolios have been associated with alternative assessment (Darling-Hammond, 1994; Hamayan, 1995; Shohamy, 1996; Wolf, Bixby, Glenn, & Gardener, 1991). This article defines "alternative assessment" as representing a paradigm and culture that is different from traditional testing, requiring a different approach to addressing the issues of validity and ethics. We present a framework that integrates a consideration of how power relations determine the ethics and validity of assessment inferences. We then apply that framework to the assessment of student portfolios in a master of arts in TESOL (MA TESOL) program. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Masters Degrees, Portfolios (Background Materials), Inferences, Validity, Ethics, Alternative Assessment, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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