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Shay, Suellen – Assessing Writing, 1997
Explores how a portfolio assessment project in the University of Cape Town's Chemistry Department developed (within staff) new understandings of the role of writing as a vehicle for learning, which resulted in a reexamination of the relationship of the written assignments to the existing curriculum. Discusses challenges of designing assessment…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Higher Education, Portfolio Assessment