Allison Miller's page on e-portfolios.
An amazing online resource that's part of the Portfolio Assessment Project conducted by the The National Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC), a consortium of Georgetown University, The George Washington University, and the Center for Applied Linguistics.
Portfolios are a popular and effective way of motivating young learners, providing a fun way to review language and helping them to reflect on their own objectives, ways of learning and success.
A site dedicated to independent language learning, including how to assess that learning.
By Emily Lynch Gómez, published by the Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory at Brown University. This 25-page .pdf download addresses topics such as performance assessment, using portfolios at the state and district levels and classroom-based use of portfolios.
By Viljo Kohonen at the University of Tampere, this article was published in Babylonia in 2000. It's available as a 6-page .pdf download and it addresses topics such as visible and invisible outcomes in language learning, how to increase visibility of learning using portfolios, how to get started, and how to get students thinking about learning processes.
By Shao-Ting Alan Hung and Heng-Tsung Danny Huang
A 68-page downloadable .pdf that includes best practices and examples. It is directed towards adult ESL learners, but the principles could be applied for any language.
An 8-page downloadable .pdf on the European Language Portfolio. I love the simple, plain language approach of this resource.
A 44-page downloadable .pdf published by JISC in the UK
Dr. Helen Barrett is arguably the world's most knowledgeable guru on portfolios for learning. Great stuff here.
Constructed by Helen Barrett
The junior version of the European Language Portfolio is a Council of Europe initiative, launched in the 2001 European Year of Languages. The ELP provides pupils with a record of their achievements and progress in languages.Junior European Languages Portfolio
This teachers' guide accompanies the Junior Language Portfolio. Like the portfolio itself, hard copies are available for sale from the National Centre for Languages. This 26-page .pdf version is free.
Cedar Rapids School District, State of Iowa Teaching Standards, Teacher’s ePortfolio