Contents:
I. Portfolios for Proficiency Testing
1. State University of New York at Stony Brook Portfolio-Based Evaluation Program, P. Elbow & P. Belanoff
2. Using Portfolios to Increase Collaboration and Community in a Writing Program, P. Belanoff & P. Elbow Addendum, P. Belanoff
3. Portfolios as a Follow-up Option in a Proficiency Testing Program, D. Holt & N. W. Baker
4. Implementing a Portfolio System, D. Smit, P. Kolonosky, & K. Seltzer
5. Evaluation for Empowerment: A Portfolio Proposal for Alaska, J. K. Wauters
6. Using the Portfolio to Meet State-Mandated Assessment: A Case Study, R. Rosenberg
7. Step by Step: The Development in British Schools of Assessment by Portfolio, P. Scott
8. Portfolios and the M.A. in English, B. Hain
II. Program Assessment
9. Metacognition and the Use of Portfolios, K. Mills Courts & M. R. Amiran
10. Bridges to Academic Goals: A Look at Returning Adult Portfolios, A. M. Sheehan & F. Dempsey
11. An Echo of Genesis: An Assessment of the Business-Writing Portfolio, J. R. Leder
12. Using Portfolios in the Assessment of Writing in the Academic Disciplines, R. L. Larson
III. Classroom Portfolios
13. Bringing Practice in Line with Theory: Using Portfolio Grading in the Composition Classroom, J. Sommers
14. Portfolios: Solution to a Problem, K. McClelland
15. A Basic Writer's Portfolio, S. Hileman & B. Case
16. A Portfolio Approach to Teaching a Biology-Linked Basic Writing Course, P. Gay
17. Portfolios Evolving: Background and Variations in Sixth Through Twelfth Grade Classrooms, R. Camp & D. S. Levine
18. Portfolios as a Vehicle for Student Empowerment and Teacher Change, K. Weinbaum
19. Going up the Creek Without a Canoe: Using Portfolios to Train New Teachers of College Writing, W. Bishop
IV. Political Issues
20. Introducing a Portfolio-Based Writing Assessment: Progress Through Problems, W. Condon & L. Hamp-Lyons
21. Large-Scale Portfolio Assessment: Ideological Sensitivity & Institutional Change, C. M. Anson & R. L. Brown, Jr.
22. The WPA, the Portfolio System, and Academic Freedom: A Cautionary Tale with an Optimistic Ending, M. Dickson
23. Writing Without Testing, C. A. Smith
