| Summary: | We hope this book motivates teachers and parents to reflect on their own ideas about education and to encourage greater self-assessment in their children through deeper engagement with meaningful learning in classrooms. We describe a rich variety of possible activities to provoke students' review of their work, analyses of their motivation, appraisal of their learning strategies, and collaboration with others. The teachers in our projects [tried] new assessment practices and we encourage others to take the same calculated risks. /// The book tells success stories of teachers who implemented literacy portfolios in their classrooms and observed many positive consequences. ... We tried to capture compelling examples of teachers and students working together ... to illustrate the power that new approaches to assessment can have on the psychological dynamics in classrooms. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).
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