October 22, 2008, 7:27 pm
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Portfolios should be taken out of our school systems. These writings take so much time away from actually learning in class. Some teachers and students could care less about the quality of the writings. The grading isn’t fair and the scoring rubric is nonsense. My portfolio writings in school were mostly done by my English teacher. Teachers would take a week off from class so they could grade portfolios. We had an entire week of substitute teachers and learning wasn’t happening. My teacher wanted her students to score high and would edit anything that wasn’t correct for us. These writings are no indication about the level our students can write.
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So…? Lemme see if I understand this …
Because teachers are abusing the tool, it should be removed?
How about powerpoint? Powerpoint is, arguably, the most abused and misused tool out there.
Or smartboards? Most teachers use these the same way they use white boards. Why not ban these?
Or distance ed … ?
I do not think that portfolios are an accurate assessment of student writing skills. I agree that a lot of teachers do most of the work or at least more than they should by state law. The purpose of writing portfolios should be to make writing better, but I have noticed that writing is actually getting worse because they count for so much of the state assessment and teachers and students just want to get them finished and the students are missing out on the basic writing fundamentals. I think that it would be okay to still use a portfolio of some sort, but not the type of writing portfolios that are currently being used. Most of the requirements are just meaningless pieces that students will never write again in their lifetime.
I do believe there has to be a better way of testing the students writing abilities. Or at least make the writings mean something to the students. The portfolios mean more to teachers then they do the students.