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Developing Portfolios for Authentic Assessment, PreK-3 - Book Cover Look Inside

Developing Portfolios for Authentic Assessment, PreK-3

Guiding Potential in Young Learners

A streamlined process for assessing children in the early grades!

This reader-friendly guidebook offers preschool and primary grade teachers practical options for building student portfolios. Reflecting current research on how children learn, the author provides an insightful discussion on authentic assessment goals and ways to make the portfolio process fun for learners while using developmentally appropriate teaching practices. Educators will find: 

  • Concise, easy-to-understand instructions for developing portfolios 
  • Guidelines for involving children in portfolio development
  • Methods for gathering data and documenting students' learning
  • Rubrics, sample portfolios, and reproducibles
  • Additional materials for integrating assessment and instruction

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Developing Portfolios for Authentic Assessment, PreK-3 - Book Cover Look Inside
Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781412954839
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2007
  • Page Count: 152
  • Publication date: December 14, 2007

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Description

Description

"Appropriate assessment of young children involves parents, teachers, and the children themselves. Kingore takes the portfolio method even further and makes a case for the involvement of early childhood educators and school administrators as well."
—Sue Javid, Early Childhood Consultant
Macomb Intermediate School District, Clinton Township, MI

"This book will contribute a great deal to the knowledge and skills teachers must have to successfully implement authentic assessment in pre-primary and primary grades. Provides the knowledge, insight, and compelling arguments on why portfolio assessment is needed in early childhood education."
—Susan Belgrad, Associate Professor, California State University, Northridge
Author, The Portfolio Connection, Third Edition

A streamlined process for assessing children in the early grades!

Written for early childhood educators, this invaluable handbook demonstrates how to use portfolios for assessment and offers techniques for combining portfolios with traditional measurements to design effective instruction and curricula for young children.

Reflecting current research on how children learn, this practical resource features an insightful discussion on authentic assessment goals and ways to make the portfolio process fun for learners while using developmentally appropriate teaching practices. Educators will find:

  • Concise, easy-to-understand instructions for developing portfolios
  • Guidelines for involving children in portfolio development
  • Methods for gathering data and documenting students' learning
  • Rubrics, sample portfolios, and abundant reproducibles
  • Additional materials and procedures to help integrate assessment and instruction

Developing Portfolios for Authentic Assessment, PreK–3 offers preschool and primary grade teachers efficient, user-friendly tools for assessing the children in their classrooms.


Key features

  • A wealth of reproducibles per chapter
  • Easy-to-understand, brief instructions for effective portfolio use
  • Research-based text in a reader-friendly format
Author(s)

Author(s)

Bertie Kingore photo

Bertie Kingore

Dr. Kingore is an international consultant and the author of twenty-two books, numerous articles, and instructional aids. She has received many honors including the Legacy Award as the Author of the 2005 Educator Book of the Year and the Outstanding Alumnus Award from the University of North Texas where she earned her Ph.D. She was also the first recipient of the Texas Gifted Educator of the Year Award.

Bertie works with teachers and models instruction in classrooms all over the globe. She is recognized for her child-centered approach and her ability to seamlessly weave research into practice. She advocates learning experiences that respond to the marvelous diversity of children, encourage high-level responses and high achievement, and minimize the intensity of teacher preparation time.

She fell in love with children and the values of portfolios her first year of teaching over 30 years ago. She delights in helping other teachers make authentic assessment realistic.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Author

1. Assessing Young Children

Authentic Assessment Goals

What Is the Value of a Portfolio?

Research Related to Portfolios and Assessment

Assessment Terms and Explanations

2. Putting Portfolios Into Action

What Is a Portfolio?

Portfolio Objectives

Planning a Sequence for Implementing Portfolios

3. Child-Involved Portfolio Management

Introducing the Process to Young Children

Materials

Organizing the Process

Reflection as a Teacher-Directed Learning Task

Size of a Portfolio

Who Selects the Products?

Increasing Children's Role in Selection and Reflection

A Portfolio Center

Words of Experience

4. Products That Impact Assessment

Product Criteria

Open-Ended and Single-Correct-Answer Products

Portfolio Products

5. Techniques to Document Achievement

Learning Logs

Repeated Tasks That Emphasize Skill Development

Skill Captions

Analytical Observation

Rubrics for Young Children

To Grade or Not to Grade

6. Communication With Parents

Parents Communicating With Teachers

Parent-Teacher Conferences

Children Communicating With Parents

Teachers Communicating With Parents

7. End of the Year

Reflection of the Assessment Process

Products to Guide the Next Teacher

Publishing the Yearly Portfolio Books

Celebrating the Published Portfolio Books

Appendix: Stationary Templates

References

Index

Reviews

Reviews

Quote by Amy Augenblick, Executive Director, Foundations for Families: "Powerful, practical ideas to make learning visible to key stakeholders—the children and their families."
"Powerful, practical ideas to make learning visible to key stakeholders—the children and their families."
Amy Augenblick, Executive Director
Foundations for Families
Quote by Susan Belgrad, Associate Professor, California State University, Northridge: "This book will contribute a great deal to the knowledge and skills teachers must have to successfully implement authentic assessment in pre-primary and primary grades. It is well positioned to provide the knowledge, insight, and compelling argument on why portfolio assessment is needed in early childhood education."
"This book will contribute a great deal to the knowledge and skills teachers must have to successfully implement authentic assessment in pre-primary and primary grades. It is well positioned to provide the knowledge, insight, and compelling argument on why portfolio assessment is needed in early childhood education."
Susan Belgrad, Associate Professor
California State University, Northridge
Quote by Marianne Lucas Lescher, Principal, Kyrene de la Mariposa Elementary School, Tempe, AZ: "This book is well organized and presents portfolios in a teacher-friendly way."
"This book is well organized and presents portfolios in a teacher-friendly way."
Marianne Lucas Lescher, Principal
Kyrene de la Mariposa Elementary School, Tempe, AZ
Quote by Sue Javid, Early Childhood Consultant, Macomb Intermediate School District, Clinton Township, MI: "Appropriate assessment of young children involves parents, teachers, and the children themselves. Kingore takes the portfolio method even further and makes a case for the involvement of early childhood educators and school administrators as well."
"Appropriate assessment of young children involves parents, teachers, and the children themselves. Kingore takes the portfolio method even further and makes a case for the involvement of early childhood educators and school administrators as well."
Sue Javid, Early Childhood Consultant
Macomb Intermediate School District, Clinton Township, MI
Quote by Shannan McNair, Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education, Oakland University, Rochester, MI: "Practical and simply written."
"Practical and simply written."
Shannan McNair, Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education
Oakland University, Rochester, MI
Quote by Joan Franklin Smutny, Founder and Director, Center for Gifted, National-Louis University: "Kingore's splendid book enables every teacher, parent, administrator, and counselor to understand the role and value of the portfolio in the growth of the young child. This book is a must-read for all of us who seek to support the intellectual, academic, social, and emotional growth of children."
"Kingore's splendid book enables every teacher, parent, administrator, and counselor to understand the role and value of the portfolio in the growth of the young child. This book is a must-read for all of us who seek to support the intellectual, academic, social, and emotional growth of children."
Joan Franklin Smutny, Founder and Director
Center for Gifted, National-Louis University

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