Student Centered Classroom Assessment

by Rick J. Stiggins

The book elucidates the fundamental importance of high-quality assessment to student academic well-being and promotes the development of student self-assessment as a critically important life skill.Provides a clear, common sense description of all assessment methods (selected response, essay, performance, and personal communication) and how to align them with relevant achievement targets (knowledge, reasoning, skills, products, and dispositions). Easy-to-read and free of technical jargon, this book focuses squarely on what teachers need to know in order to make assessment work in classrooms.

477 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1994

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.

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[Spacek Kim · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is as relevant today as it was when written back in 1997. Education has advanced in the area of state assessments, however, teacher-developed assessments still lack, partially because of the time element. Communication about learning targets, instructing, then assessing is vital to student achievement. Then, communication about assessment results is needed to help students set goals and take responsibility for their learning.