Part 2: INTRODUCTION

• What is portfolio assessment?
• Rationale: Why use portfolio assessment?
• Portfolio assessment and the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning
• The National Standards for Foreign Language Learning

• Starting out
• Cooperation
• Adapting materials
• Language of instruction
• Using the Teacher Self-Efficacy Questionnaire

• Planning the purpose
• Planning the audience
• Portfolio scenarios: Planning purpose and audience

• Defining assessment terms
• Content validity
• Systemic validity
• Face validity
• Reliability

• Inventory of available resources
• Inventory of current activities
• Matching contents to goals
• Organizing portfolio contents
• Integrating portfolio assessment and instruction

• 8:1 Setting criteria
  
• 8:2 Portfolio scenarios: Creating rubrics
  
• 8:3 Learning reflections: Artifacts and attestations
  
• 8:4 Student self-assessment
  8:5 Peer-assessment for language activities
  
• 8:6 Assessment of learner self-efficacy
  
• 8:7 Learning strategies: Learning tools in the portfolio
  

Part 10: Issues to Consider