Reasonable Decisions in Portfolio Assessment: Evaluating Complex Evidence of Teaching

Creator

Aaron Schutz
Pamela A. Moss

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Publisher

Arizona State University, University of South Florida

Publication Date

July 2004

Abstract

A central dilemma of portfolio assessment is that as the richness of the data available to readers increases, so do the challenges involved in ensuring acceptable reliability among readers. Drawing on empirical and theoretical work in discourse analysis, ethnomethodology, and other fields, we argue that this dilemma results, in part, from the fact that readers cannot avoid forming the data of a portfolio into a pattern—a coherent "story" or "stories"—in order to evaluate it. ...

Keywords

Portfolios in education

Extent

47

Volume

12

Issue

32

Language

English

Media Type

Journals (Periodicals)

Format

Digital Only

Note

Citation: Schutz, A., Moss, P.A., (2004, July 20). Reasonable decisions in portfolio assessment: Evaluating complex evidence of teaching, Education Policy Analysis Archives, 12(33). Retrieved [Date] from http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v12n33.

Identifier

E11-00382

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Recommended Citation

Schutz, Aaron and Moss, Pamela A., "Reasonable Decisions in Portfolio Assessment: Evaluating Complex Evidence of Teaching" (2004). Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA). 510.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_EPAA/510