Quotations from Connie Moss and Susan Brookhart

From: Advancing Formative Assessment in every Classroom

"Just as a windmill intentionally harness the power of moving air to generate energy, the formative assessment process helps students intentionally harness the workings of their own minds to generate motivation to learn." p. 5

"Propelled by the formative process, students understand and use learning targets, set their own learning goals... and assess their own learning progress. And as students develop into more confident and competent learners, they become motivated to learn, increasingly able to persist during demanding tasks..." p. 5


Three central questions guide the formative assessment process:
1. Where am I going?
2. Where am I now?
3. What strategy can help me get to where I need to go?

This sounds a lot like Personal Mastery...
1. Vision
2. Awareness of one's current reality
3. Taking actions that move us closer to the vision

It sounds like Covey's private victory as well:
1. Begin with the End in mind
2. Be Proactive
3. Putting first things first

"Students are operating in the dark as well (as the teachers). Without the benefit of knowing how to assess and regulate their own learning." p. 9

"Students become self-regulated learners and data-driven decision makers. They learn to gather evidence about their own learning and to use that information to choose from a growing collection of strategies for success." p. 10

to be continued...