Wikipedia:School and university projects/Kentucky Writing Portfolio

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Introduction
This page is a collaborative effort between members of the English Methods class of the Masters with Initial Certification program at University of Kentucky. The information presented is current up to Dec 2007, and changes should be made sparingly until the product is completed.

Background
The Kentucky Writing Portfolio is an ongoing writing process that is scored at intervals throughout the educational experience. Within its pages, students submit various writings that fall into specific categories. Those categories can be viewed by following this link. .

Reflective Writing
Reflective Writing is one of the four required types of writing that students must include in their Kentucky Writing Portfolio. For the portfolio, the reflective piece should focus on how the student has grown in his or her writing ability through the acquisition of literacy skills. Reflective writing serves as a self-assessment for the student. In the reflective writing requirement for the portfolio, students personalize the piece to discuss their growth as a writer and also examine any areas in writing in which they feel they need improvement. The piece is called a litography.

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Personal Writing
Personal Writing is a subcategory of the Kentucky Writing Portfolio that encompasses one or two pieces of student writing from the areas of personal narrative, memoir, or personal essay. Personal writing focuses on the individual experiences of the student writer. Students’ personal writing is expected to fully develop their personal experience while using sensory detail, expression of thoughts and feelings, incorporation of dialogue, and the use of a first person perspective.

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Literary Writing
Literary writing is a subcategory of the Kentucky Writing portfolio that deals primarily with the expansion of characters, literary genres (plays, short stories, etc.) and the like. Although it focuses on English content-knowledge, it is perhaps the most open-ended of the writing requirements, allowing students to exercise their creativity as much as their ability to form and structure writing.

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Transactive Writing
Transactive writing, or what may be more commonly known as real-world or authentic writing, is one of four types of writing that must be included in the K-12 Kentucky Writing Portfolio for Assessment. It is characteristic of writing for publication, not writing to learn or writing to demonstrate learning. Although it may incorporate content knowledge, its main function is to achieve an authentic purpose for an authentic audience, using an authentic form.

School and university projects/Kentucky portfolio transactive writing

Transactive Writing with an analytical or technical focus
The Analytical/technical transactive portfolio piece is a required portfolio genre and the newest type of portfolio piece included in the twelfth grade portfolio. The analytical transactive piece was added to encourage real-world writing across content area curriculum and to create a niche for the writing to demonstrate learning that is so often completed in classrooms but not considered “publishable.” The analytical transactive piece encourages critical thinking and development of communication skills. Analytical transactive pieces often reference outside sources but also include student idea development and must evidence critical and analytical thinking about a subject. The required fourth and seventh grade writing portfolios do NOT include an analytical transactive piece because skillful analysis is not necessarily a skill honed by the seventh grade.

School and university projects/Kentucky portfolio transactive with analytical or technical focus writing

Scoring
The state of Kentucky scores the writing portfolio using an analytic rubric. Each of the four pieces a student submits is scored by three separate areas, by at least two scorers, using a double-blind process.

School and university Kentucky portfolio scoring

Acceptable Practices
The Kentucky Writing Portfolio, a component of the Commonwealth Accountability Testing System, is backed by the Kentucky Program of Studies, a legal document meant to guide instruction. As such, teachers must adhere to specific guidelines in order to preserve the integrity of each student portfolio, and to remain in legal compliance. Areas of concern for teachers include, but are not limited to, the writing of prompts and the editing and revision process.

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Links
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