included
habits of mind in recommendations for portfolio assessment. According to
Engel, portfolio assessment should include opportunities for examining
students': basic skills, control of information, higher level understanding,
personal characteristics, and habits of mind. Engel, like Wiggins, did not offer
pragmatic suggestions for assessing habits for mind in portfolios, only the
admonition to do so.
Habits of Mind in School Reform
The school reform movement popular in the Eighties produced
numerous models for re-structuring schools and for re-organizing
instruction. Two well-known school reform efforts are associated with habits
of mind. Ted Seizer's Coalition of Essential Schools was perceived by Pexiotto