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\"Screen<\/a>What educator hasn\u2019t wished they could get inside a student\u2019s head \u2013 if even just for a moment \u2013 to really understand how she thinks, learns, and what she still needs to do to grasp a concept or lesson? Process portfolios (also known as \u201cprocess-folios\u201d) provide an opportunity to not only peek inside a student\u2019s progression toward mastery, but also to get the student more actively engaged in understanding his own learning process.<\/p>\n

You may think to yourself: Oh sure, I know all about portfolio assessment — that\u2019s when students present a big senior project before a panel of community members. Great stuff. Or, maybe the name reminds you of the promising, but ultimately failed (derailed<\/i>, some may say, by the standards movement) experiment with statewide portfolios in Vermont.<\/p>\n

Wrong. Those are summative assessments. Although Steven Seidel won\u2019t swear by the \u201cbirth story,\u201d the idea for process<\/i><\/b> portfolios likely emerged out of the arts-oriented work he, Howard Gardner, and the team at Project Zero were doing via Arts Propel in the late 1980s with the Pittsburgh Public Schools and Education Testing Services. \u00a0The impetus for creating process-folios focused on the notable role reflection could play in learning, particularly learning in the arts. Seidel recalls the team\u2019s concern at the time that \u201cusing the term portfolios would only mean collections of one\u2019s best work\u201d — \u00a0the common understanding when educators talk about portfolios. However, Seidel explains that \u201cthe kinds of portfolios for learning that we were developing were designed to include lots of one\u2019s work — \u00a0what the student thought was his or her best work, but also selections of work in process so you could see the process of learning happening through the collection of selected pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n

The impact of process portfolios comes from not<\/i> waiting until the end of a learning objective, \u00a0but rather from engaging the educator and student at pivotal milestones along the way for self-reflection. Making Assessment Student-Centered<\/i> (Anytime, Anywhere<\/a>, 2013) authors Heidi Andrade, Kristen Huff, and Georgia Brooke outline similar features: \u201cSuccessful process portfolios actively engage students in their creation, especially in determining their goals, selecting work to be included, and reflecting on how each piece demonstrates progress toward their goals.\u201d Process folios can be coupled with other types of self-assessment, a learning\/assessment approach positively correlated with academic improvement.<\/p>\n

For educators striving to make learning more student-centered, two key concerns are: how to know their students are progressing and how to get students to take ownership over their own learning. Having assessment be part of the learning process, not just a grade at the end of a set moment in time is a critical element of student-centered education approaches. One powerful tool in the tool-box of student-centered assessment is the process portfolio. \u00a0On the Students at the Center website, teachers can find a suite of tools and resources<\/a> to help make student-centered assessment part of their classroom \u2013 including a how-to and examples of electronic tools to manage process portfolios, \u00a0and a new series of engaging videos<\/a> of peer and self-assessment in action.<\/p>\n

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Rebecca E. 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