Assessment for Learning
The U.S. has devoted ten to fifteen years to trying to
build a state and national system of assessment for
accountability. This has succeeded in shining a light at
the same failing schools one might have named before
it all started. What it has not accomplished is to
provide students with “just-in-time” information about
their own learning and link it to information on the
criteria needed to do better. That is, assessment for
learning.