The Ultimate Purpose Of Assessment

By Art Costa

"We must constantly remind ourselves that the ULTIMATE PURPOSE of assessment is to create autonomous students who are:

• self-analyzing
• self-evaluating
• self-referencing
• self-renewing, and
• self-motivating.

This requires that people develop internal feed back spirals as a means of:

• setting goals
• planning actions
• gathering data about their actions & the consequences
• reflecting on their own values, and
• altering their behaviors & values accordingly."

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