The Scoring of Writing Portfolios: Phase 2 Eward M. White: Reading notes

The Scoring of writing portfolios is about holistic scoring, and how it affects portfolios. Holistic scoring is a standard base test for scoring papers. This affects portfolios because you are not allowed to grade how you want you grade on a specific grading base. Holistic scoring gives teachers a lazy way of grading so that they do not have to work as hard and not grade as much. Believe it or not almost all assessments are scored holistically because of time and money issues. Holistic scoring came about by Educational testing services they found a fast and money efficient way to grade essay quizzes.