Tests Worth Taking? Using Portfolios for Accountability in Kentucky

Susan Callahan

doi:10.58680/rte19973885

Research in the Teaching of English Oct 1997

Tests Worth Taking? Using Portfolios for Accountability in Kentucky

Susan Callahan Northern Illinois University

Abstract

Observes how nine members of the Pine View High School English Department interpreted and implemented Kentucky’s state requirement for portfolio assessment of secondary school students. Suggests that the faculty saw the assessment as a test of their competence and felt great pressure to produce good portfolios but little incentive to explore ways portfolios might be used in the classroom.

Journal: Research in the Teaching of English
Published: 1997-10-01
DOI: 10.58680/rte19973885
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