Re: just a little more portfolio assessment

Charles Bazerman (bazerman who-is-at humanitas.ucsb.edu)
Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:52:38 -0800 (PST)

To add a bit of historical complexity to the portfolio assessment
discussion, I remember that in the early seventies when the idea of
portfolios began floating around writing people in CUNY, the idea was
specifically associated with the portfolios of artists, photographers,
advertising execs, actors, etc. who prepared portfolios to represent
their talents, in pursuit of work. This certainly seems an activity
embedded form of self-presentation and assessment. An important link in
making this association was the portfolios prepared by art students,
photography students, etc. during their final year in preparation for
entering the job market. This idea then further migrated into the bowels
of the educational system. What happens in these migrations and
transformations may be problematic and worth examining in detail, but the
origin of the idea was precisely in embedded activity in non-academic work
systems.

Since I am now at the age when I remember more than I think, let me turn
Eugene's question around--what do you remember?

Chuck