ABSTRACT
Kids are different today. Until recently, students produced schoolwork and promptly forgot about it. At most, parents held onto assignments that received special praise or had sentimental value and squirreled them away to be admired at some unknown point in the future. Today, students can be seen maintaining files of their previous work, sometimes complete with autobiographies and analyses of the competencies they have demonstrated in classroom assignments and work accomplished out of school. They call these files portfolios. Until they are evaluated, however, they are simply folders containing students' documents.
