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How I Have Learned Portfolios Work Best

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Portfolios collect many assignments and reflections that accrue around a student-chosen theme. At the end of the semester, an integrative reflection essay rounds out the portfolio. Require students to turn in portfolios at least once early in the semester, so they cannot save all the portfolio work until the last minute. From experience, Dr. jay Banner, Jackson School of Geosciences, has learned a valuable lesson about what kinds of autonomy students should be given and what kinds they should not.

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