基于学习策略的英语教学中学习档案评价作用研究

教师如何帮助学生学习并培养其自主性,已成为第二语言教学领域的一个热点问题。本文主要研究如何将学习档案作为一种工具来促进学生语言学习并培养其学习自主性。本研究将学习档案融入到以策略为基础的外语教学的各个步骤中。通过测试了解学生英语水平,借助问卷收集其有关运用学习档案的想法和态度以及对自己学习风格倾向性的认识。研究发现,学习档案的运用可以提高学生对学习策略的使用意识,帮助其提高学习效率,优化学习过程,提高学生的自学能力。     

成长记录袋的创建与使用

成长记录袋有意识地收集学生的作品或有关证据,以反映学生在某一领域的努力、进步与成就。任课教师创建和使用成长记录袋一般要经过明确目的和用途、对内容选择提供指导、明确学生角色、确定评分程序和标准、交流和使用等几个主要步骤。在当前的评价实践中,学校和教师还要注意谨慎选择成长记录袋的应用领域、将成长记录袋的应用与教学有机结合、给教师和学生足够的自主权并加强教师培训。     

The paradigm shifts: Examining quality of teaching through assessment of student learning

Student learning is the strongest criterion for evaluating effective teaching. This article looks at three practices which partner students, teachers, and faculty peers in understanding the quality of teaching and learning through student course portfolios and teacher course portfolios, majors portfolios and teaching portfolios, and collaborative classroom assessment. Two outcomes of using a learning paradigm are building community and representing successes in higher education through documentation of effective teaching and learning.Barbara L. Cambridge, Professor of English and Associate Dean of the Faculties at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, serves on the IUPUI Program Review and Assessment Committee and recently chaired the Task Force on Accountability and Assessment for Indiana University's Strategic Directions Longrange Planning. She has made presentations and written on portfolio assessment, assessment and evaluation of faculty work, and issues in undergraduate education. Editor of theJournal of Teaching Writing, she is past President of the National Council of Writing Program Administrators.     

The Use of Portfolios in Evaluation—Revisited

In reply to Alschuler's commentary to their original article, the authors suggest that portfolios are valuable supplemental evaluation and assessment tools.     

E-portfolios: an assessment tool for online courses

This article considers the various uses of e‐portfolios in an educational context and looks at the particular characteristics of the electronic version of portfolios. It then focuses on the application of the e‐portfolio as an assessment method. A case is made for the use of the e‐portfolio as an appropriate end of course assessment process where learning objects are the basis of the course design. Evaluation data from such a course is presented. This is a post‐graduate online course run by the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University. Conclusions are drawn from the evaluation about the appropriateness of e‐portfolios as an end of course assessment method.     

A Response to the Emperor's New Clothes

In reply to Alschuler's commentary on their original article, the authors argue that portfolios are reliable, valid means for assessing students' progress and for program evaluation.     

新课程化学学科学生学业评价初探——从几则案例谈起

新课程化学学科学生评价需具体化并有可操作性。其具体措施是:进一步明确化学学科评价的内容和标准,提高学生学业评价的科学性和有效性;提高成长记录袋评价的针对性,充分发挥成长记录袋评价的作用;通过活动表现评价培养学生的探究能力和情感态度价值观;从知识的整体联系出发,运用纸笔测验考核学生解决实际问题的能力。     

论档案袋评定与学生评价

档案袋评定是通过对档案袋的制作过程和最终结果的分析而进行的对学生发展状况的评价。它是学生评价的有效途径。学生档案袋评定的策略,一是终结性评价、诊断性评价、形成性评价相结合;二是将单一的认知评价扩展为对学生全面、综合素质的多元评价;三是自我评价、小组评价、教师评价、家长及社区人士参与相结合。     

Portfolio practices in higher education in Norway in an international perspective: macro‐, meso‐ and micro‐level influences

The point of departure for this article is the ‘chameleon’ aspect of portfolios and the diversity of portfolio models and practices in higher education on the international arena today. Our aim is to investigate the contextual character of this diversity by using Norwegian higher education as an example and to show how macro‐level influences, particularly the Bologna related Quality Reform, have shaped the overall development of portfolio practices. We contextualise and discuss the sudden expansion of learning and assessment portfolios in Norway after 2002. Our data are primarily a nationwide survey of portfolio practices, supplemented by findings in a research evaluation of the reform and previously published case studies. The majority of portfolios in Norwegian higher education can be classified as ‘disciplinary‐based course work portfolios’ and they typically serve a combination of learning and assessment purposes. But within this category we found systematic differences between different educational areas where the main dividing line seems to be between professional and non‐professional education. The underlying research perspective is sociocultural and this directs our attention to contexts, cultures and traditions that shape portfolio development and practices rather than to individual differences (micro level).     

美国有效教师研究述评

美国颁布《不让一个孩子掉队》教育改革法案以来,“有效教师”成为美国教师教育改革运动的核心。探讨美国关于“有效教师”的定义研究、有效教师的历史研究、美国中小学关于“有效教师”的实践研究,以及美国关于有效教师与无效教师的特征比较研究。同时,还进一步探讨美国教师“有效教师”的评价研究,特别关注美国“有效教师”评价方法的多样研究,包括课堂传统的课堂观察评价、学生评价、同行评价,新发展的教师档案袋评价、教师绩效评价和价值增值评价等。     

Examining evaluation system of an English language program in China

In the field of EFL, effective language evaluation is receiving more and more attention. However, in many Chinese EFL situations, the evaluation of language development is still considered to be product-oriented. It is the purpose of this article to examine an evaluation system of an English language program offered by a university in Yunnan Province of China to identify the existing problems and any points which do not conform to the current view of effective language evaluation. For the sake of possible improvements in assessment/evaluation, a method/technique of using portfolios that is not at present used in this program for evaluation/assessment is proposed, and the rationale of introducing this method is discussed.     

Promoting Professional Development in Higher Education through Portfolio Assessment

The evaluation of the capacity for reflective and critical thinking at the transition stage from pre‐service education to working life is a challenging task for the development of quality assessment in higher education. Beginning teachers can organise their plans, reflections, observations and work samples in what is called a portfolio, reflecting on their experiences. The purpose of the present study is to evaluate professional development in higher education based on personal portfolios during a year‐long induction programme. The trainees were new teachers about to enter working life. The development essays and interviews with the participants based on their personal portfolios were analysed through qualitative methods. The results indicate that self‐assessment is an important tool for professional development.     

A model for portfolio assessment in early childhood education programs

It is necessary for teachers to consider alternative means of evaluating their students. One method proving to be effective for gathering and organizing student productivity, growth, and development is the portfolio approach. This article describes the Early Childhood Portfolio Assessment Preparation (ECPAP) Model that was used to facilitate the use of student portfolios in two different early childhood education programs. The goals of the model, the six steps followed and the participants' responses to this project are discussed. This article may serve early childhood directors and supervisors who are preparing teachers to implement student portfolios as a supplement or an alternative to the existing assessment and evaluation programs. Also early childhood teacher education students can benefit from the design and implementation of ECPAP.     

试论校本德育课程的开发与利用

传统的德育课程在目标、内容、实施、评价四方面存在着诸多问题。开发利用校本德育课程不仅成为一种社会发展的要求,更成为一种个体发展的需求。开发利用校本德育课程必须做到：目标制定力求“以人为本”,内容选取趋向“生活化”,课程实施引入“组织参与模式”,评价方面建立学生品德档案袋。     

The Doctoral Portfolio: Centerpiece of a Comprehensive System of Evaluation

The authors describe the process used to revise a traditional doctoral student evaluation system from one that consisted of written comprehensive and final oral examinations to one that features portfolio development. Student competence, expected student outcomes in each competency area, procedures for portfolio development, and documents and procedures for faculty review of the portfolios are described. Recommendations for implementing such a system and implications for counselor education programs are discussed.     

Electronic Portfolios in Teacher Education: A Case Study of Early Childhood Teacher Candidates

The use of electronic portfolios is increasingly becoming popular in teacher education programs. The electronic portfolio allows learners to express their work and take ownership over their own ability to plan and assess and reflect upon their learning during a specific period of time. While many teacher education programs have adopted electronic portfolios in order to meet accreditation requirements, others use electronic portfolios to develop and improve on students’ technology skills—train students on how to better use technology in instruction and student assessment. Irrespective of the reasons for adoption, there is the need to assess students’ perceptions of electronic portfolios, and especially to explore the benefits and challenges students face in using electronic portfolios in their course work. Using a qualitative research design, the current study explored teacher candidates’ attitudes toward electronic portfolios and the differences that electronic portfolios bring to their profession. Such a study is necessary to help administrators identify students’ needs to ensure that they are gaining the maximum benefits from the use of electronic portfolios in their programs of study.     

Portfolio People: Teaching and Learning Dossiers and Innovation in Higher Education

As teaching portfolios have become more commonplace in higher education, interest has grown in student portfolios. Both innovations embody the same core process—reflection—and both have similar potential benefits and similar drawbacks. This paper commends portfolios as innovative in themselves and as a response to the new mandates that are confronting higher education. Accounts of the potential of and problems with portfolios are summarized, and attention is then given to key issues in successfully introducing them. The underlying position is that students can best gain from their years of study when the systemic reflection that is characteristic of portfolios engages them (through learning portfolios) and their teachers (through teaching portfolios). Embedding such thinking in practice is, itself, a powerful and innovative approach to re-framing the curriculum.     

Counseling Freshmen

Abstract

Course evaluations are used by many institutions in promotion, tenure, and merit decisions. This article discusses the influences on those evaluations and how faculty can combat those biases to ensure accurate portrayal of their teaching effectiveness. Alternative evaluation methods are reviewed, including portfolios, peer feedback sessions, and informal student surveying.