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Roe, Mary F. – 1991
A qualitative study focused on the experiences of 20 teachers required to use portfolio assessment in a summer program for at-risk kindergarten and first-grade students. Three questions guided data collection: What types of information did the teachers aggregate?; What definition of literacy emerged from the acquired information?; and What guided…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Emergent Literacy, Portfolios (Background Materials), Primary Education
Dickson, Marcia – 1993
Unacknowledged and untended opposition can lead the "resistance" to destroy even the best planned of portfolio systems. The greatest cause of initial resistance to portfolio assessment is the fear that teachers will lose their autonomy and/or authority in the classroom. Writing instructors need to ask themselves about issues of control and…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Change Strategies, College Faculty, Higher Education
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Chrispeels, Janet Hageman – American Educational Research Journal, 1997
This study presents a longitudinal and intertextual analysis of educational policymaking activity in California over a 10-year period to identify factors that supported local policy implementation in a shifting political climate. Analysis reveals the essential nature of coherence, capacity building, and changed practices in building an alternative…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Coherence, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Hange, Jane E.; Rolfe, Helen G. – 1994
A collaborative study group on teacher development of alternative assessments in mathematics and the sciences was cosponsored in the 1992-93 school year by the Virginia Educational Association and the Appalachia Educational Laboratory. Twenty-two teachers from 11 schools throughout Virginia worked with staff from the sponsoring organizations and…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Cooperation, Educational Assessment, Elementary School Teachers