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THE PORTFOLIO IS NO LONGER REQUIRED. THIS ARCHIVE IS FOR REFERENCE ONLY

A PORTFOLIO BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bayles Martin, Debra. The Portfolio Planner: Making Professional Portfolios Work For You. Prentice Hall/Merrill, 1998. 

Type of Portfolio: Professional Teaching Portfolio

Description: Directed to preservice and inservice teachers, this 96-page guide addresses common questions about professional portfolios (e.g., purposes and audiences, relationship to various teaching standards, evaluation of professional portfolios, electronic portfolio development). Links throughout the text allow the reader to customize his/her reading of topics, much like browsing the web. Comments from practicing teachers, examples of various professional portfolio ideas, and portfolio planning pages are included to help make this a "how-to" book as well.

ISBN / URL

Audience: Higher Ed.

Cambridge, Barbara L. and Anne C. Williams. Portfolio Learning. Prentice Hall Publication, 1998. 

ISBN / URL: 013299819X 

Audience

Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, Vol. 12, Number 4. [Entire issue dedicated to portfolios]. Career Planning and Adult Development Network, Winter 1996-97. 

Type of Portfolio: Mostly employment
Career/resume planning

Description: Individual articles include "Using Job Search Portfolios," "Translating College Experiences into Marketable Skills," "Portfolio Development: A Journey from Student to Professional," and "What Do Employers Want? How Can a Portfolio Help?"

ISBN / URL

Audience: Those seeking to help college students create self-presentation portfolios
Higher Ed.

Cooper, Winfield (Editor). The Portfolio News. University of California at San Diego, . 

Type of Portfolio:

Description: Hard to tell if this has been updated since 1995, but has some good information nonetheless. 

A quarterly publication that includes articles about portfolios in various disciplines (mostly elementary and high school, though includes some university-level information), book reviews, resources, and listings of portfolio projects around the country. For subscription information, write to: Editor, Portfolio News, Teacher Ed-UC at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093-0070. See also the URL above.

ISBN / URL: http://www-tep.ucsd.edu/TEP_Main_Pages/portfolionews/PNHomePage.html 

Courts, Patrick L. and Kathleen H. McInerney. Assessment in Higher Education: Politics, Pedagogy, and Portfolios. Praeger Pub, 1993. 

Type of Portfolio: Student evaluation/grading

Description: As part of the American school reform movement, administrators are searching for ways of measuring students' skills and progress within the system. Courts and McInerney focus on the qualitative assessment college level. The authors are concerned that the teaching and learning process will be subsumed by assessment and will become even more test-driven than it now is. A critical look at multiple-choice, standardized examinations shows how unmindful our educational testing is of psychosocial diversity. The authors warn that in upgrading American education nationwide, more effective and self-confirming measures should be faculty-developed and locally-controlled. They propose a new compact among teachers and students as they take mutual responsibility for the learning process and changing curriculum.
--Amazon.com

ISBN / URL: 275944271 

Audience: High School

Diane Hodges. Portfolio: A Self-Learning Guide. 847-304-8575, l998. 

Type of Portfolio: Career/resume planning
Integration of curriculum/co-curriculum

Description: The Student Managed Portfolio allows students to document their acheivements in the areas of Academic, Team Work, and Personal Management Skills, Employment, Interests and Activiites, and anything else that shows "who they are and what they can do." The workbook contains a vinyl display folder for students to display their accomplishments.

Audience: High School

Eyler, Janet, Dwight Giles, Jr., and Angela Schmiede. A Practitioner's Guide to Reflection in Service-Learning. Vanderbilt University, 1996. 

Type of Portfolio: Reflection

Description: A practical, hands-on guide to incorporating reflection into service activities--either as part of a course or in stand-alone programs. The reflection techniques can easily be transferred to other activities where reflection is key (portfolios, career planning, study abroad, etc.). Interesting reflection activities for the reader to help us "practice what we preach." Uses a variety of learning styles, developmental learning strategies, and student testimonials. Helpful section on convincing others that service-learning is beneficial.

A note from the co-author Janet Eyler:
They are being distributed by the Learn and Serve America Service-Learning
Clearinghouse. Have people write and request a copy. The address
[or at any rate AN address] is:

Learn and Serve America
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
1054 Buford Avenue
Room 460
St. Paul MN 55108

Put attn: Reflection Guide
on the envelope

They reprinted quite a few, but they are going fast -- I don't think people will have any trouble getting them if they request now.

Dwight and I are writing a more complete guide that goes beyond reflection and deals with all the aspects of establishing service- learning in higher ed. Jossey-Bass will have this out in about a year.

ISBN / URL: http://www.btinternet.com/~ukcentres/ 

Audience: Higher Ed.

Jackson, Lewis & Rosemary Caffarella, ed.. Experiential Learning: A New Approach. Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1994. 

Type of Portfolio: Reflection
Advising (academic planning)
Career/resume planning
Program evaluation/Institutional assess.
Student evaluation/grading
Integration of curriculum/co-curriculum

Description: Chapter 6 is extremely beneficial in defining portfolios and presenting guidelines on portfolio construction.

Audience: People just starting to research portfolios
Higher Ed.
High School

Johnson, Nancy and Leonie Marie Rose. Portfolios: Clarifying, Constructing and Enhancing : An Administrator's Guide. Technomic Pub Co, 1996. 

ISBN / URL: 1566764769 

Kalman, C.S. and J. Kalman. Writing to Learn. American Journal of Physics 64, p. 954-956, 1996. 

Type of Portfolio: Reflection

Description: See also "Developing Critical Thinking Skills through Writing to Learn Techniques"; http://WWW.IATS.COM/Newsletter.html

Audience: Higher Ed.

Kimeldorf, Martin. A Teachers' Guide to Creating Portfolios: For Success in School, Work, and Life. Free Spirit Publishing, 1994. 

Type of Portfolio: Career/resume planning

Description: Good, concise overview of portfolio issues from a teacher's perspective. I especially like the section on "Employability Portfolios Models." Good bibliography of resources.

ISBN / URL: http://amby.com/kimeldorf/ 

Audience: High School

Kimeldorf, Martin. Creating Portfolios: For Success in School, Work, and Life. Free Spirit Publishing, 1994. 

Type of Portfolio: Career/resume planning

Description: This is a student guide or workbook for portfolio construction. Style and content seem geared toward a high school audience. Contains some helpful hints and exercises.

ISBN / URL: http://amby.com/kimeldorf/ 

Audience: High School

Kimeldorf, Martin. Portfolio Power. Peterson's Publishing Group, 1997. 

Type of Portfolio: Career/resume planning

Description: This book shows the many different ways portfolios can be used in a professional life. Portfolio Power illustrates using a portfolio for a variety of purposes, including: 
Making career decisions 
Applying for college and credits 
Securing financial backing 
Transitioning from military to civilian employment 
Assisting with sales and marketing 
Demonstrating your value at an interview 
Proving your contributions during employee evaluations 
Using virtual portfolios for online job searches.

Numerous examples are included from the author's 20 year experience in making and using portfolios. Samples from all over the world illustrate how job seekers, schools, career counselors and experts are using portfolios to give them the advantage in a tight labor market. Principles of good design illustrate how to make an effective and eye-appealing presentation. People also interested in electronic and multi-media portfolios will find useful tips and suggestions.

ISBN / URL: http://amby.com/kimeldorf/ 

Audience: High School
Higher Ed.
Non-traditional

Knight, Michael E. and Denise Gallaro (Editors). Portfolio Assessment : Applications of Portfolio Analysis. University Press of America, 1994. 

Description: Applications from early childhood through theatre and music programs; some professional development. 
--Amazon.com

ISBN / URL: 819194158 

Audience: High School

Lester, Juliette and Nancy Perry. On Assessing Career Development with Portfolios. ERIC Clearinghouse on Counseling and Student Services, 1995. 

Type of Portfolio:

Description: Notes: [as of 1995] "Juliette N. Lester is the Executive Director of the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (NOICC). 

"Nancy S. Perry, Guidance Consultant for the Maine Department of Education, is currently serving as Career Development Specialist with NOICC. "

Audience: High School

Mandell, Alan & Elana Michelson. Portfolio Development and Adult Learning: Purposes and Strategies. Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 1990. 

Type of Portfolio: Student evaluation/grading
Integration of curriculum/co-curriculum

Description: Pragmatic guide to and discussion of the use of portfolio for prior learning, but can be easily adapted to sponsored experiential learning. Offers several portfolio approaches with sample topics, assignments, and activities.

Audience: Higher Ed.
Non-traditional

Paris, Scott G. and Linda R. Ayres. Becoming Reflective Students and Teachers With Portfolios and Authentic Assessment. American Psychological Association, 1994. 

Type of Portfolio: Student evaluation/grading
Reflection

Description: This book details how teachers can encourage students to assess their own academic progress on a daily basis and develop critical thinking and study skills in the process. It explores how students can become reflective and self-regulated learners - and what it can mean to teachers to become reflective models of life- long learning.

The authors present the concept of authentic assessment, in which students actively evaluate their own learning in ways that are meaningful (or authentic) to their educational experience. Based on a pilot project in Michigan schools, the authors discuss the student portfolio of work as an assessment vehicle as well as a bridge between school and home.

The text includes ideas and suggestions for activities that provide both learning and assessment opportunities.

To order APA books, call 1-800-374-2721

Contents:
Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Vibrant Classroom
Creating Motivating Classrooms
Features of Authentic Assessment
Consequences for the Participants
Overview of This Book
Statement of Rationale and Goals

Goal 1: Understanding Self-Regulated Learning
Characteristics of Self-Regulated Learning
Learner-Centered Psychological Principles
How Traditional Practices Undermine Self-Regulated Learning

Goal 2: Understanding Learner-Centered Principles of Assessment
Assessments That Promote Reflection
Students' Self-Assessment

Goal 3: Promoting Students' Reflections Through Classroom Activities
Using Portfolios to Enhance Self-Assessment
Self-Evaluations, Inventories, and Surveys
Journals, Self-Portraits, and Letters
Conferences

Goal 4: Strengthening Home-School Connections
Letters
Parents' Profiles of Their Children
Parent-Teacher Conferences
Home Portfolios
Dialogue Journals
Home-School Classroom Activities

Goal 5: Becoming Reflective Teachers
Characteristics of Reflective Teachers
Consequences of Being Reflective

Final Review: Learning, Developing, and Becoming
The Importance of Reflection
Ongoing Opportunities for Reflection
Self-Assessment Promotes Personal Development
Conclusion

Appendix: Learner-Centered Psychological Principles

Glossary

References

About the Authors

ISBN / URL: ISBN: 1-55798-252-X 

Audience: High School

Porter, Carol and Janell Cleland. The Portfolio As a Learning Strategy. Boynton/Cook Pub, 1995. 

Type of Portfolio: Reflection

Description: Portfolios, to them, help students learn about themselves as learners. The text looks in depth at the curricular and instructional framework of a student-centered classroom. Learning strategies are described in detail and illustrated with student samples that demonstrate firsthand how portfolios can assist students in reflective self-evaluation. --Amazon.com

ISBN / URL: 086709348X 

Robert Wyatt & Sandra Looper. So You Have to Have a Portfolio. Corwin Press, 1999. 

Type of Portfolio: Reflection
Program evaluation/Institutional assess.
Student evaluation/grading
Integration of curriculum/co-curriculum

Description: A teacher's guide to preparation and presentation. This nuts and bolts presentation starts with a description of the various kinds of professional portfolios and guides you through material selection, assembly, and presentation.

ISBN / URL: http://www.corwinpress.com 

Audience: Higher Ed.
Non-traditional

Robin Fogarty (Editor). Student Portfolios : A Collection of Articles. Skylight Pub, 1996. 

ISBN / URL: 1575170116 

Schipper, Beth and Joanne Ross. Portfolios in the Classroom : Tools for Learning and Instruction. Stenhouse Pub, 1997. 

ISBN / URL: 1571100601 

Smith, Michael K & Others, ed.. Reviews and Descriptions of Assessment Instruments: Major Field Assessments. Clearinghouse for Higher Education Assessment Instruments, 1994. 

Type of Portfolio: architecture, art, business, computer science, drafting, education, English composition, philosophy/religion
Student evaluation/grading

Description: Sponsored by a FIPSE grant, a compilation of descriptions of various assessment instruments and methods used in specific higher education disciplines. Portfolio assessment entries included for architecture, art, business, computer science, drafting, education, English composition, philosophy/religion.

Clearinghouse for Higher Education Assessment Instruments
212 Claxton Education Building
College of Education
Knoxville, TN 37996-3400
(615) 974-5894

ISBN / URL

Audience: Higher Ed.

Straub, Carrie. Creating Your Skills Portfolio. Crisp Publications, Inc., 1997. 

Type of Portfolio: Career/resume planning

Description: Part of the 50 Minute Series of books, this publication is a workbook designed to guide the reader on a step-by-step approach to building a skills showcase portfolio. Very concise and practical information.

Audience: Higher Ed.

Williams, Anna Graf and Karen J. Hall. Creating Your Career Portfolio. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1997. 

Type of Portfolio: Career/resume planning

. Get a Life Portfolio. National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee/ American School Counselor Association, 199?. 

Type of Portfolio: Reflection
Career/resume planning
Integration of curriculum/co-curriculum

Description: Helps students articulate and plan career and life goals. Individualized, easy-to-use personal planners and portfolios help students:

o figure out who they are, what they want, how to get there 
o see the relationship between their education and work skills 
o build career development competencies 
o document their progress and accomplishments 
o take responsibility for managing their lives 

Can be used with upper elementary through high school-aged youth. High School Kate Duttro

ISBN / URL: http://www.noicc.gov/files/ngetlife.html 

Audience: High School

. NOICC Career Development Tools. National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee, 1998. 

Type of Portfolio: Reflection
Advising (academic planning)
Career/resume planning

Description: A collection of career development tools for youth and adults designed to help people document skills, discover strengths and interests, etc. Tools include:

o The Real Game - a career exploration program for middle school/junior high youth 
o Get a Life Career Development Portfolio - a personal planner for students (elementary -- high school/college) 
o School-to-Work Transition Planner - a portfolio for high school or community college students ready to enter the workforce 
o Career Information Delivery Systems (CIDS) and Products - for all ages 
o Career Development Competencies, as identified in the National Career Development Guidelines (K-Adult) -skills people need to manage career transitions over their lifetime. (The Real Game and Portfolios help build youth competencies in career development.) 
o Real Times, Real Life - a career/work orientation program for adults 
o Life Work Career Portfolio - a career development planner for adults 
o Exploring Learning Options - a workbook for adults seeking further work-related education or training 
o Career Information Delivery Systems and Products - for all ages 
o Career Development Competencies, as identified in the National Career Development Guidelines (K-Adult) -skills people need to manage career transitions over their lifetime. (The Life Work Portfolio helps build adult competencies in career development.) 

The web site listed above provides very brief descriptions and pricing information, but no examples. If you have used these tools and can provide a review, please email Victoria Davis.

ISBN / URL: http://www.noicc.gov/files/ncdtools.html 

Audience: High School
Higher Ed.
Non-traditional

 

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