Chapter Five Conclusion
5.1 Major Findings
This study aimed to investigate the impact of portfolio assessment on students’continuation writing self-efficacy and competence.First,the effect of portfolio assessment onstudents’continuation writing self-efficacy was investigated using questionnaires and a semi-structured interview.The impacts of portfolio assessment on students’writing competence interms of content,language,structure and writing norms were explored by analyzing students’writing drafts and a semi-structured interview.The main findings were as follows.
First,the findings obtained from questionnaires and the semi-structured interview provedthat portfolio assessment enhanced students’English continuation writing self-efficacy,including continuation writing task self-efficacy and continuation writing skill self-efficacy.As for continuation writing task self-efficacy,bbefore portfolio assessment,the writing taskself-efficacy of the participants was at an intermediate level.However,after a term’s portfolioassessment,the data showed that the writing task self-efficacy improved significantly,especially in terms of comprehending the text in the continuation writing,which was in linewith the result of the interview.It indicated that after the application of the portfolioassessment,the participants identified their weaknesses and attached greater importance tothe corresponding writing tasks.After consistent practice,they felt more confident ofcompleting these assigned continuation writing tasks.Through these changing results,itcould be inferred that portfolio assessment had a significant effect on enhancing participants’writing task self-efficacy.However,some different opinions also existed.For example,thesubjectivity of continuation scoring was questioned.In addition,for some students,it waschallenging to perform self-assessment and peer assessment,and it took a long time tocomplete three drafts for a composition.Besides,portfolio assessment exerted a positivedifference on senior high school students’continuation writing skill self-efficacy.According tothe result of the questionnaire survey,the level of writing skill self-efficacy was low.As forthe retest,the average score of the writing skill self-efficacy of the participants wasremarkably higher than the original level.
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