English Teaching: Practice and Critique
Portfolio assessment: Making connections, guiding change
Volume 7 Number 3 December 2008
Caryn King (College of Education Grand Valley State University)
Nancy Patterson (College of Education, Grand Valley State University)
Three literacy teacher-educators chart the ways in which portfolio assessment impacted their program. They discuss the tension between the demands of national accreditation standards and faculty belief systems in more ecological approaches. They describe the processes of change that occurred programmatically and individually which continue to improve the literacy program.