This article discusses an interdisciplinary research project in which faculty from nursing and english collaborated in the assessment of students' critical thinking skills as reflected in writing portfolios. Faculty reviewed students' writing portfolios and then corresponded on email from two different universities about evidence of critical thinking in the portfolios. Findings suggest that wri...

The advantages of portfolios come from observing the student learning process and recording feedback. Students utilized their own learning portfolios to do learning assessment and self-correction. The research that has been done in Taiwan has shown that using a portfolio is effective in improving English speaking performances (ESP). The purpose of this study is to apply the portfolios to assess...

In an editorial in this Journal I asked the question whether recertification, albeit for specialists, would be far behind. Over the last few weeks, most doctors in the United Kingdom received a summary paper concerning the General Medical Council's (GMC) proposals for revalidation. In essence, the GMC is proposing the submission of a portfolio on a five yearly basis. The events and scandals tha...

this study aimed to investigate the washback effect of three alternative assessment procedures, namely oral-conferences, portfolios, and corpora-based feedback on the writing achievement and attitudes of iranian efl university learners. the participants taking part in the study were 156 native iranian students in a mixed reading-writing course. through the two three-month semesters, the learner...

The purpose for this study was to find an assessment that is currently being used and is a common assessment familiar to others within the Brick-and-mortar classroom and transform that assessment for use within the online learning environment. By using assessments, teachers can measure whether or not students are learning what it is they are teaching. (Methodology) The purpose of this qualitati...

The Authors Miriam Friedman Ben David is Professor of Medical Education, formerly Co-Director of the Clinical Skills Certification Programme at the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) and Associate Dean at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Professor Friedman Ben David is currently at the Centre for Medical Education, Dundee, Scotland. Her main areas of ...

Electronic portfolios are a student-centered outcomes-based assessment regime involving learners in the gathering, selection, and organization of artifacts synthesized into a compilation purposed to demonstrate knowledge, skills, and/or achievements supported by reflections that articulate the relevance, credibility, and meaning of the artifacts being presented. Electronic portfolios have been ...