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Looking in the Mirror: Helping Adolescents Talk More Reflectively During Portfolio Presentations by Tim Fredrick — 2009Background/Context: Portfolio assessment is a popular form of authentic assessment, but often portfolios become simply folders full of papers rather than student reflections on their work.
Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: The author conducted a study aiming to help the ninth-grade students in his English language arts classroom be more reflective about their reading and writing portfolios.
Research Design: This study was conducted as a teacher research study in two parts. The first part studied the effect on the reflectiveness of students when using a 10-minute one-on-one presentation with the teacher instead of a cover letter. From the data received from these first-semester presentations, the teacher-researcher categorized the students' statements into reflective and nonreflective categories. In the second part of the study, the teacher used these categories to teach students to speak more reflectively during their second-semester presentations.
Conclusions/Recommendations: The author found that students can be taught to be more reflective about their work and that this newfound reflectiveness helps students take more control in their literacy education.
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- Tim Fredrick
New York University
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TIM FREDRICK is currently a candidate for a PhD in English Education at New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. His research interests include teacher–student relational power and how classroom power dynamics are reflected in and negotiated through classroom discourse, as well as secondary English curriculum and assessment methods. His article “Choosing to Belong: Increasing Adolescent Male Engagement in the ELA Classroom” was published in the April 2006 issue of Changing English, and he has presented at the National Council of Teachers of English, the New York State English Council, and the International Conference of Teacher Research.
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