It’s a good time for educators and experts in the field to debate what kinds of alternative assessments for English-language learners work best, since assessment is dominating discussions about ...

Portfolio assessment has been around for a long time, and the practice appears to be growing. It’s easy to see why. A portfolio lends itself naturally to assessment, whose aim is to collect evidence ...

Electronic collections help show the range of students' work, but are not standardized or scalable enough to be used for broad assessment purposes, write Richard Shavelson, Stephen Klein and Roger ...