The Perfect Assessment System
Rick Stiggins is the founder and retired president of the Assessment Training Institute (ATI), a professional development company founded to provide teachers, school leaders, policymakers, and communities with the assessment literacy required to face the assessment challenges that plague American education today. Pearson Education now owns ATI.
Rick Stiggins pushes for a complete overhaul of assessment in American education in his book The Perfect Assessment System. Speaking from more than 40 years of experience in the field, and speaking for all learners who want to succeed, teachers who want them to succeed, and local school leaders whose aspirations for success have been thwarted by assessment traditions, Stiggins outlines the changes in practice and culture that are required to generate both accurate accountability data and specific evidence of individual mastery that will support sound instructional decision making and be accepted by the public. He addresses:
- Assessment purpose: how (and why) to specify the objective of each evaluation and the users it will serve.
- Learning targets to be assessed: how to ensure that everyone focus on the relevant competencies and define consistent definitions of success.
- Assessment quality: how to ensure that every assessment, at every level, is outstanding.
- Communication of assessment results: how to disseminate information in the most effective methods for a variety of goals.
- Assessment impact: how to connect assessment to truly effective, universal student motivation.
People have yet to investigate assessment's actual potential to improve both school quality and student well-being. Stiggins starts this essential discussion by charting a path for a new system that promises substantially higher levels of student performance at a fraction of the current testing expenses. The door to assessment reform is open; here is a bold proposal for getting it right.
Author: Rick Stiggins
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