Learning Paths
LEARNING PORTFOLIOS
ARTER J.A., et al. (1995), Portfolios for Assessment and Instruction. Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Digest, Washington, D.C.
BARNHARDT S., KEVORKIAN J., DELETT J. Portfolio Assessment in the Foreign Language Classroom. National Capital Language Resource Center, Washington, D.C.
BRANDT R.(1990), “On Assessment in the Arts: A Conversation with Howard Gardner.” Educational Leadership, 47(6), 24-29.
COUNCIL OF EUROPE EDUCATION COMMITTEE (1997), European Language Portfolio: Proposals for Development. Council of Europe, Strasbourg.
COUNCIL OF EUROPE (2001), Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
FARR R. (1991), Portfolios: Assessment in Language Arts. Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Digest, Washington, D.C.
FRENCH R.L. (1992), Portfolio Assessment and LEP Students. Proceedings of the Second National Research Symposium on Limited English Proficient Student Issues: Focus on Evaluation and Measurement. OBEMLA.
GRACE K. (1992), The Portfolio and Its Use: Developmentally Appropriate Assessment of Young Children. ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education, Urbana, Ill.
KOHONEN V. (1993), “Facilitating Learner Autonomy Using Portfolio Assessment” in HUTTUNEN I (ed.), Report on Workshop 2B - Learning to Learn Languages: Investigating Learner Strategies and Learner Autonomy, pp. 53-60. , Council of Europe, Council for Cultural Cooperation, Strasbourg.
KOHONEN V. (1999), “Authentic Assessment in Affective Foreign Language Education” in ARNOLD J. (ed.), Affect in Language Learning, pp. 279-294. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
LANKES A.M.D. (1995), Electronic Portfolios: A New Idea in Assessment. Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Digest, Washington, D.C.
MARIANI L. (2000a), “Saper apprendere: verso la definizione di un curricolo esplicito”. Lingua e Nuova Didattica, Anno XXIX, No. 4.
MARIANI L. (2000b), Portfolio. Strumenti per documentare e valutare cosa si impara e come si impara. Zanichelli, Bologna.
NUNAN D. (2000), “Seven Hypotheses about Language Teaching and Learning”. TESOL Matters, Vol. 10 No. 2.
O’MALLEY J.M., VALDEZ PIERCE L. (1996), “Portfolio Assessment” in Authentic Assessment for English Language Learners, pp. 33-56. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, New York, N.Y.
SANTOS M.G. (1997), “Portfolio Assessment and the Role of Learner Reflection”. English Teaching Forum, Vol. 35, No. 2.
SWEET D. (1993), Student Portfolios: Administrative Uses. Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), Washington, D.C.
SWEET D. (1993), Student Portfolios: Classroom Uses. Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), Washington, D.C.
Internet sites
- You can find one of the richest and best structured bibliographies on the use of portfolios (Bibliography of assessment alternatives: Portfolios), c/o Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, at the following address: http://www.nwrel.org/eval/library/bibliographies.html
- An Annotated Bibliography: Introductory Readings on Portfolio Assessment for Foreign Language Teachers, by Jennifer Kevorkian, is available at: http://www.cal.org/nclrc/caidlr18.htm#BM3
- A site devoted specifically to issues in portfolio use, including teacher portfolios, care of Courtney Zmach (Resources: Authentic Assessment and Portfolios), can be found at: http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/
- The Council of Europe Portfolio site can be found at: http://culture2.coe.int/portfolio/inc.asp?L=E&M=$t/208-1-0-1/main_pages/welc ome.html
- For the Swiss version of the European Language Portfolio, go to: http://www.unifr.ch/ids/Portfolio/