Portfolio Evaluation for Students Completing Bob Broad’s “Professional Seminar in the Teaching of English (English 510)

This is Bob Broad’s evaluation of the semester’s coursework completed by:

(student’s name) ________________________________________

Date of evaluation: _________________________

To help you learn and improve your work, I have already commented substantially on your projects during the semester. In this summary evaluation I will provide only brief comments--if any--on your work. My job at this point is to judge your work against the standards we have developed within our course and that I have developed during my years teaching these methods courses.

At this time, I am looking mainly for two things: changes in your work since I last saw it (e.g., all evidence of your writing process on major projects, new journal entries) and a sense of how your work looks all collected in your portfolio and considered as a final and whole product. I will read the contents of your portfolio and judge each of the major elements as falling into one of five categories of quality. I use a number to represent each category of judgment: 4 = “Excellent, Outstanding”; 3 = “Good, Impressive”; 2 = “Adequate, Satisfactory”; 1 = “Poor, Unsatisfactory”; 0 (zero) = “No Credit.” (Note also the correspondence between these numbers and the letter grades listed below.)

The final grade I assign to your work in the course records my synthesis of the judgments I make concerning the major elements of your work in the course. Here is the meaning that each letter grade carries for me:

A “Outstanding, excellent.” Your work shows exceptional strengths and few or no major weaknesses.

B “Good.” Your work shows significant strengths, and/or its strengths are offset by some significant weaknesses.

C “Adequate, satisfactory.” The strengths and weaknesses of your work are roughly equally balanced. (Please note: the grade of C does not mean “average”; it is most likely neither the mean, the median, nor the mode of the grades I will give.)

D “Poor.” I find more significant weaknesses in your work than I do strengths.

F “Failing.” Your work does not meet my minimum expectations for work in this course, and does not therefore merit credit for the course.

	Process (50%)	Product (50%)	Combined Grade	Notes
Internship Proposal r Classroom Research OR r Course design and teaching
Teaching Philosophy OR Course Design
Comps Reading List and Overview
Response Journal
Class Participation (Including preparation, attendance, listening, speaking, and class presentations)
Other Portfolio Materials (Including Preface, process documentation, responses to and support of others’ work, and organization of portfolio)

Grade for the course: __________

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