Assessing Student Performance
Wiggins, Grant P
What is assessment and how does testing differ from it? Why are performance tests, by themselves, not an adequate system of student assessment? How might we better "test our tests" beyond current technical standards? And why won't increased national testing offer the accountability of schools we so sorely need? In "Assessing Student Performance, " Grant P. Wiggins explores these questions and clarifies the limits of testing in an assessment sy...