d there is evidence of mastery of knowledge
e it may include various forms of work, such as written work, audio
recording, video recording, etc.
When used in teacher education the portfolio is known as a teaching
portfolio.portfolio assessmentn
an approach that makes use of portfolios as a basis of assessment.
portmanteau wordn
see blending
positional variantn
an allophone of a particular phoneme that appears in a specific position.
For example, the aspirated stops at the beginnings of the English words
pot,top, and copare positional variants of the phonemes /p/, /t/, and /k /,
respectively.
positive evidencen
see evidence
positive facen
the good image that people have of others and themselves and wish others
to have of them as well.
see face, politeness
positively skewed distributionn
see skewness
positive politeness strategiesn
see politeness
positive reinforcementn
see operant conditioning, stimulus-response theory
positive transfern
see language transfer
positivismn
a philosophical movement that began in the early twentieth century, charac-
terized by an emphasis on the scientific method as the only source of know-
ledge and a desire to rebuild society on the basis of “positive” knowledge.
As a version of empiricism, among the basic ideas of positivism are the idea
portfolio assessment