Performance and portfolio assessment (1985–1995): An extended annotated bibliography of sources useful for language teachers

This bibliography offers a collection of extended article summaries drawn from the performance and portfolio assessment literature of the past decade. Articles include journal entries as well as book chapters, and they were chosen based on the representation of various segments of the relevant literature. Annotated entries represent the general education literature and the L2 literature, and they cover theoretical bases for performance and portfolio assessment as well as implementation of and research on alternative forms of assessment. Also included are representative articles from the relevant assessment validity literature. Finally, other related references (not annotated in the current bibliography) are listed. The bibliography should be of use to language testers, language educators, and language researchers interested in the development of performance and portfolio assessment over the past ten years.