Stiggins and Wiggins Weigh in

I have spent hours reading up on a couple of researchers. Rick Stiggins wrote; Using student involved classroom assessment to close achievement gaps. Which outlines some practices that close the gap- one of them being goal setting and meaningful involvement by students.
I also am reading lots about the Tripod Project- Ronald Ferguson and his team write about the conditions learning organizations need in order to motivate students to succeed. They write about student goal setting!
Grant Wiggins wrote Understanding by Design and this work addresses the idea called Locus of control (the extent to which individuals believe that they can control events that affect them).
My literature foundation is filling up... Senge, Covey, Ferguson, Stiggins, Fletcher, Baldrige, and more.