Standard Four ~ Assessment

Below is an example of a rubric for grading students' writing portfolios.  This is identical to what the students are given to inform them of how the will be assessed.

portfolio assessment

On Friday, May 9th, you will have to submit a portfolio to me to show me how much you have worked to improve your writing.  Give me all of the written assignments you have completed since the beginning of this quarter.  This is a chance for you to do any of the assignments you didn’t do before.  Do your best to improve all your work and make your portfolio complete.  Follow the comments I wrote on your writing to revise and improve every one.  Write your work more neatly and accurately.  Make everything better.

Besides including everything from your last portfolio, your new portfolio should include the following (five total):

  • a poem about your homeland
  • a paragraph about being able to count on others
  • two thank you letters from A Dog You Can Count On
  • a paragraph about what life might be like if you were blind

I will grade you according to how complete your portfolio is and how much improvement it shows.  Your work should look good.  Typing helps.  This collection of your work is worth a total of 200 points towards your quarterly grade.  Make it look like a magazine or publication to impress me.

 

This is the grading rubric:

The first 100 points are for completion ---

The percentage of work that is complete will be used to make a grade.  So, for example, if only four of the five writing assignments are in the portfolio (it is missing one assignment) then you have 80% of the work complete.  In that case, you get 80 points out of 100.

The other 100 points are for how well developed and presentable it is.  These points are assigned in the following manner:

100 points

All the work is “perfect” in many ways.  All of the assignments do not need further editing or revision.  There are few errors and it is well formatted and typed.  Overall, it is neat and presentable, like a final product.

90 points

Nearly all the assignments are final products.  They are neat and presentable.  Some may still need some editing but none need any major revision.  The work is, for the most part, well formatted and typed.

80 points

The portfolio is presentable but some of the assignments may be sloppy, or untyped.  Some of the assignments are not final products and may need more editing or even revision.

70 points

The portfolio is in some ways not presentable.  Much of it may be sloppy or untyped.  Many of the assignments are not final products and still need a lot of editing or revision.

60 points

The portfolio is not presentable and shows little effort or improvement.  It may be sloppy or untyped.  Most of the assignments still need a lot of editing or revision.  Most of the assignments have not been improved in any way and may still have the teacher’s comments written on them.

 

note:

These standards were copywritten by Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL) in 2002.
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