{"id":63,"date":"2016-01-28T17:01:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T22:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/eportfolio-sample\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2016-03-25T10:20:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T14:20:27","slug":"performance-assessments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/learning-teaching-portraits\/portrait-i-overview\/performance-assessments\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance Assessments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having just completed a memoir and a thesis essay, I wanted to give students the chance to show me their learning in a different way. Thus, I decided to have students create a three-part portfolio assignment. My goal was for students to be able to apply a text (<em>Of Mice and Men<\/em>) to different discourses of writing: something analytic, something creative, and something of their choice.<\/p>\n<p>Students were required to write a response paper to &#8220;Friendship in an Age of Economics,&#8221; a piece by Todd May based on Aristotle&#8217;s <em>Nicomachean Ethics<\/em>. They were also required to draft\u00a0a letter as one character writing to another (or a reflective, in-character diary entry). The third option was their free choice. See the &#8220;Portfolio Options&#8221; instruction sheet below. My only comment here is that perhaps I gave them too many options!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/01\/Options.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-816\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-816 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/01\/Options.jpg\" alt=\"Options\" width=\"585\" height=\"651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/01\/Options.jpg 585w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/01\/Options-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/01\/Options-135x150.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, of course, I gave them a rubric for all of this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/01\/OMaM-Rubric.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-818\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-818 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/01\/OMaM-Rubric.jpg\" alt=\"OMaM Rubric\" width=\"624\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/01\/OMaM-Rubric.jpg 624w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/01\/OMaM-Rubric-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/01\/OMaM-Rubric-144x150.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was impressed by the work they turned in, and by their presentations. Keep reading to see all of this, with student work samples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having just completed a memoir and a thesis essay, I wanted to give students the chance to show me their learning in a different way. Thus, I decided to have students create a three-part portfolio assignment. My goal was for students to be able to apply a text (Of Mice &#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/learning-teaching-portraits\/portrait-i-overview\/performance-assessments\/\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}