Which tenent did you most relate to and why? I think prehaps the Focusing on how students learn. I had a really good instructor that used a very different approach to assessment, It fell into the drill and re drill area sort of, but it played off the aspect that students learn best from their mistakes. I've tried to do that in my class, the students who don't make my 80% mark appreciate the opportunity to correct the errors on the failed assessment even if they have to explain why the correct answer is the correct answer and cite the lesson page number to raise their grade. I'm envolved with a research project even now that started out to look at student class selections based off of learning syles, but we certainly found out very few sign-up for a class from that premise. Because I teach an open class I will have all levels, ages, and skill levels in my class. It can be difficult to find how the middle road for their learning as a class unit.
What potential if, if any, do you see for portfolio assessment? This question was my easy one. I'm a linguist and the availablity of using the portfolio for advanced language composition classe and now that I know about speaking availability for the blogger sites, speaking samples as well!
What do you think the creation and development of your portfolio will do for your learning? It seems like to me that portfolios have been scary for me. I don't like having my stuff open for just anyone's criticism and I just as well prefer not to have any record of where my work had progressed from. What's behind is history. What is here is now and of more worth. If my portfolio truely contained the best of the best instead of a complilation over the process then ift could be very benifical, but very few people care how you got there, only that you are there.
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