ADVANTAGES:
-Promoting student self-evaluation, reflection, and critical thinking. -Measuring performance based on genuine samples of student work. -Providing flexibility in measuring how students accomplish their learning goals. -Enabling teachers and students to share the responsibility for setting learning goals and for evaluating progress toward meeting those goals. -Giving students the opportunity to have extensive input into the learning process. -Facilitating cooperative learning activities, including peer evaluation and tutoring, cooperative learning groups, and peer conferencing. -Providing a process for structuring learning in stages. -Providing opportunities for students and teachers to discuss learning goals and the progress toward those goals in structured and unstructured conferences. -Enabling measurement of multiple dimensions of student progress by including different types of data and materials. (Venn, 2000, p. 538)