Situating Portfolios - Softcover

Yancey, Kathleen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874212200 ISBN 13: 9780874212204

Publisher: Utah State University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Yancey and Weiser bring together thirty-one writing teachers from diverse levels of instruction, institutional settings, and regions to create a stimulating volume on the current practice in portfolio writing assessment. Contributors reflect on the explosion in portfolio practice over the last decade, why it happened, what comes next; discuss portfolios in hypertext, the web, and other electronic spaces; and consider emerging trends and issues that are involving portfolios in teacher assessment, faculty development, and graduate student experience.

Contributors include Peter Elbow and Pat Belanoff, Gail Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe, Brian Huot, Sandra Murphy, and William Condon.

About this title

About the Author:

Kathleen Yancey is associate professor of English at University of North Carolina-Charlotte.

Irwin Weiser is associate professor of English at Purdue University.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

When teachers began developing portfolios over a decade ago, we knew that what we were about...was pretty ambitious: it was, in fact, nothing short of changing the face of American education. (from the Introduction)

About this edition

• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0874212200
• ISBN 13: 9780874212204
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416