Subject: RE: Portfolios
From: Micaela (mbombard@middlebury.edu)
Date: Fri May 10 2002 - 11:49:38 EDT
Who said reading? I'm just a lowly undergrad :) I'm writing the damn
thing. And what's wrong with poetry?
-m
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-bananafish@roughdraft.org
[mailto:owner-bananafish@roughdraft.org]On Behalf Of Jim Rovira
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 11:38 AM
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
Subject: Re: Portfolios
heh...I don't know if I envy you for reading those poetry portfolios, or
pity you :)
Jim
Micaela wrote:
>
> Jim, that sounds really fair,...although a bit like the admissions process
> here. Reader upon reader, etc.
>
> Good luck guys. I've got 3 exams of my own this week: two take-home, one
> self-scheduled, and a poetry portfolio. Somehow I have to find time to
pack
> my stuff to go home, too. Not to mention that I haven't found a summer
job
> yet and I'm in the midst of planning a month-long hike on the Long Trail.
> Despite all of this, I will manage to have a great weekend, and I hope you
> all do too.
>
> -Micaela
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-bananafish@roughdraft.org
> [mailto:owner-bananafish@roughdraft.org]On Behalf Of Jim Rovira
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 10:57 AM
> To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
> Subject: Re: Portfolios
>
> yeah, sounds pretty much like the same thing we do here -- the self
> evaluation is part of the introductory essay (I can see the logic of
> putting it at the end, though), and we only use 2 actively revised
> essays...but one of them is a 12 page or so research paper. If you're
> using three 5-6 page papers, that's probably about the same amount of
> reading that we do.
>
> Another thing we do that's pretty interesting (for ENGL 1, anyways), is we
> have instructors review one another's portfolios and score them. Then the
> instructor reads their own student's portfolios and scores them, then the
> two scores are compared. If the two scores are more than about a point
off
> on a 1-6 point scale, then the essays go to a third reader. It's one of
> those days where everyone is sequestered for about 6-8 hours and we order
> chinese food or pizza :). We try to all agree on some kind of grading
> rubric so we know the difference between a "3" paper and a "5" paper ahead
> of time.
>
> You're at Wash. State, right? I think I used some stuff from that website
> in my course :).
>
> Jim
>
> Will Hochman wrote:
> >
> > Jim, it's 3 "actively" revised essays from the term plus a short
> > introductory essay about the essays, and then an afterword with a
> > self-evaluation. It really collects the term for writers and this
> > reader, will
> > --
> > Will Hochman
> >
> > Associate Professor of English
> > Southern Connecticut State University
> > 501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515
> > 203 392 5024
> >
> > http://www.southernct.edu/~hochman/willz.html
> >
> > -
> > * Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message
> > * UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH
> -
> * Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message
> * UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH
>
> -
> * Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message
> * UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH
-
* Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message
* UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH
-
* Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message
* UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b25 : Fri Sep 27 2002 - 17:14:11 EDT