Classroom Assessment for Student Success

by Rick J. Stiggins

This title addresses the issues of motivating students for assessments, developing teachers' assessment literacy, and enhancing professional development to increase teachers' assessment skills. It also proposes a plan for expanding teachers' vision of the relationship between assessment and effective schools and provides a map to help move from current ways of assessing to the expanded vision.

57 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1998

About the author

Richard John Stiggins is the retired founder and president of the Assessment Training Institute (ATI), Portland, Oregon, a professional development company created and designed to provide teachers and school leaders with the assessment literacy needed to face the assessment challenges that pervade American education today. He is a native of Canandaigua, New York and a graduate of the State University of New York at Plattsburg where he majored in psychology. He also holds a master’s degree in industrial psychology from Springfield (MA) College and received a Ph.D. in educational measurement from Michigan State University.