Background on the Collaborative
We are Michigan educators of various roles and positions, teachers, principals, consultants who began to study together in the summer of 2012. We have studied "authentic assessment" work of researchers such as Linda Darling Hammond, Jacquiline Ancess, and Theodore Sizer. We have practiced using rubrics to rate authentic samples of student writing, and each of us is engaged in our own research project related to helping ourselves to better understand the potential of portfolio assessment and related to building our individual and group professional capacities so that we can more powerfully support use of portfolios and portfolio assessment in the schools. We believe that the stakeholders most "left out" and harmed by the current standardized tests are the learners--whose concept of learning and confidence to risk-take in learning are both limited and blunted by the tests.
We will be collaborating as researchers, reporting our progress to each other, and reporting our results to others through our work on this website. We will be interacting in important weays with the work of the National Writing Project and of Michigan Portfolios.
We believe the move to portfolio assessment is both important and urgent.
We will be collaborating as researchers, reporting our progress to each other, and reporting our results to others through our work on this website. We will be interacting in important weays with the work of the National Writing Project and of Michigan Portfolios.
We believe the move to portfolio assessment is both important and urgent.