Assessment

Now that we have a better idea on how to create the e-portfolio, why to do so and what to put on it, the million dollar question for us teachers is to know how to evaluate it and how to get the most out of it. Personally, I like rubrics because if you give them to your students since the beginning, they will know exaclty what you expect from them. I also consider that there has to be a balance between teacher´s and peer´s feedback, because sometimes we miss things that students do not. The thing there is that we need to push them in order for the comments to be relevant and objective, because sometimes they do not like to be honest with their classmates, especially if they are correcting a friend. 

Getting into teacher´s feedback, I coincide with the readings: the sooner the better. If you wait too much to let them know what you think, they won´t probably remember what you are talking about. It is also important not to give them straight answers, but to let them recognize their mistakes. If we just tell them that it is wrong, there is a high probability that they won´t even understand why. The whole idea of correcting mistakes is that they become meaningful in such a way that students avoid them in the future.