Portfolios: keep a good idea growing -- pt. 1. Classroom practice: -- Portfolios in first grade: a teacher's discoveries -- A fifth-grade class uses portfolios -- Eighth grade: finding the value in evaluation -- College sophomores reopen the class portfolio -- Teachers evaluate their own literacy -- pt. 2. Examine possibilities rethink directions: -- Help students learn to read their portfolios -- Portfolios for large-scale assessment -- Portfolio definitions: toward a shared notion -- pt. 3. Portfolio keepers: four portraits: -- Staying the course: one superintendent -- Multigenre research: one college senior -- An alternative portfolio: gathering one child's literacies -- One bilingual child talks about his portfolio.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-195) and index.