Subject: RE: Portfolios
From: Micaela (mbombard@middlebury.edu)
Date: Fri May 10 2002 - 11:23:16 EDT
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
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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
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