Assessments Quote by David N. Perkins

“Grades are not a valid assessment of learning. Learning, to be validated, must be demonstrated.”

— Charles Schwahn

“Assessment is about teachers and not about students.”

— Deepa Bhussh

“Assessment must be a conversation, a narrative that enhances students’ understanding of what they know, what they can do, and what needs further work.…

— Starr Sackstein

Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction.

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

“Assessment can be either formal and/or informal measures that gather information. In education, meaningful assessment is data that guides and informs the teacher and/or…

— Dan Greathouse & kathleen Donalson

“a grade can be regarded only as an inadequate report of an inaccurate judgment by a biased and variable judge of the extent to…

— Alfie Kohn

“Assessment should not be about defining a reader but about piecing together information to help us design classroom experiences so we can observe our…

— Clare Landrigan

“In the book Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing It Right, Using It Well (2004), Rick Stiggins et al. offer seven strategies for assessing…

— Cris Tovani

The individualization of learning fundamentally redefines the role of assessment.

— Sebastian Thrun

“Stiggins’s Seven Practices of Assessment FOR Learning Where am I going? Provide a clear and understandable vision of the learning target. Use examples and…

— Cris Tovani

“Student-engaged assessment involves students in underst anding and in vesting in their own growth. It changes the primary role of assessment from evaluating and…

— Ron Berger

“...none of us will have forgotten that lesson. What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them: education in…

— Richard Dawkins