Developing Portfolios for Authentic Assessment, PreK-3: Guiding Potential in Young Learners

by Bertie Kingore

Overview

Written for early childhood educators, this guide provides rubrics, samples, reproducibles, and easy-to-understand procedures for developing fun, effective student assessment portfolios and integrating assessment and instruction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412954822
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/21/2007
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Dr. Kingore is an international consultant and the author of twenty-two books, numerous articles, and instructional aids. She has received many honors including the Legacy Award as the Author of the 2005 Educator Book of the Year and the Outstanding Alumnus Award from the University of North Texas where she earned her Ph.D. She was also the first recipient of the Texas Gifted Educator of the Year Award.

Bertie works with teachers and models instruction in classrooms all over the globe. She is recognized for her child-centered approach and her ability to seamlessly weave research into practice. She advocates learning experiences that respond to the marvelous diversity of children, encourage high-level responses and high achievement, and minimize the intensity of teacher preparation time.

She fell in love with children and the values of portfolios her first year of teaching over 30 years ago. She delights in helping other teachers make authentic assessment realistic.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Assessing Young Children
Authentic Assessment Goals
What Is the Value of a Portfolio?
Research Related to Portfolios and Assessment
Assessment Terms and Explanations
2. Putting Portfolios Into Action
What Is a Portfolio?
Portfolio Objectives
Planning a Sequence for Implementing Portfolios
3. Child-Involved Portfolio Management
Introducing the Process to Young Children
Materials
Organizing the Process
Reflection as a Teacher-Directed Learning Task
Size of a Portfolio
Who Selects the Products?
Increasing Children's Role in Selection and Reflection
A Portfolio Center
Words of Experience
4. Products That Impact Assessment
Product Criteria
Open-Ended and Single-Correct-Answer Products
Portfolio Products
5. Techniques to Document Achievement
Learning Logs
Repeated Tasks That Emphasize Skill Development
Skill Captions
Analytical Observation
Rubrics for Young Children
To Grade or Not to Grade
6. Communication With Parents
Parents Communicating With Teachers
Parent-Teacher Conferences
Children Communicating With Parents
Teachers Communicating With Parents
7. End of the Year
Reflection of the Assessment Process
Products to Guide the Next Teacher
Publishing the Yearly Portfolio Books
Celebrating the Published Portfolio Books
Appendix: Stationary Templates
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

"This book will contribute a great deal to the knowledge and skills teachers must have to successfully implement authentic assessment in pre-primary and primary grades. It is well positioned to provide the knowledge, insight, and compelling argument on why portfolio assessment is needed in early childhood education. "

Susan Belgrad

"Kingore's splendid book enables every teacher, parent, administrator, and counselor to understand the role and value of the portfolio in the growth of the young child. This book is a must-read for all of us who seek to support the intellectual, academic, social, and emotional growth of children. "

Joan Franklin Smutny

"Practical and simply written."

Shannan McNair

"Appropriate assessment of young children involvesparents, teachers, and the children themselves. Kingore takes the portfolio method even further and makes a case for the involvement of early childhood educatorsand school administrators as well."

Sue Javid

"This book is well organized and presents portfolios in a teacher-friendly way."

Marianne Lucas Lescher

"Powerful, practical ideas to make learning visible to key stakeholders—the children and their families."

Amy Augenblick

"Practical and simply written."

Shannan Mc Nair