Using Portfolios To Assess the Writing of ESL Students: A Powerful Alternative?.

Song, Bailin; August, Bonne

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ERIC Number: EJ652219

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2002

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Using Portfolios To Assess the Writing of ESL Students: A Powerful Alternative?

Song, Bailin; August, Bonne

Journal of Second Language Writing, v11 n1 p49-72 Feb 2002

Describes a quantitative study that compared the performance of two groups of advanced English-as-a-Second-Language students in a second semester composition course at the City University of New York (CUNY). Results suggest that students were twice as likely to pass into the second semester course when they were evaluated by portfolio rather than by the CUNY Writing Assessment Test (WAT). (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Portfolios (Background Materials), Second Language Learning, Student Evaluation, Writing Evaluation

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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