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  • The digital portfolio assignment replaces an exam or more conventional term paper; it strikes many writing teachers and writing program administrators as more "authentic" forms of both reflection and assessment, especially when we keep in mind that we're only getting a snapshot of a student's complex, contingent, still-being-negotiated identity as a writer, as a student, and as a person
  • In First Year Writing we value and emphasize the meta-awareness and metacognitive components of portfolios, in which students can articulate not only what they learned but how they learned it
  • We help students develop as reflective practitioners when we support them in their efforts to keep track of their work (collection), take responsibility for selecting pieces of their writing that represent their achievements (selection), and reflect on their own work in the course (reflection). 

 

 

 

DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.