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Our approach to student-centered assessment should follow logical and clear steps from start to finish, with ample room to be creative within those stages. Giving Students a Say will present an assessment plan that fundamentally and authentically involves the student. Specific steps covered in the following chapters include

 Sharing and cocreating student-centered learning targets.

 Using rubrics linked to standards to provide success criteria and ongoing performance assessments.

 Involving students in ongoing assessment opportunities.

 Devising grading systems that are reliable, fair, and sensible.

 Designing student self-reporting structures.

In covering each of these topics, we'll address some of the problems with traditional approaches to assessment. With each theme, we'll consider some of the research and concepts that support student-centered systems. We'll also look at examples of educators empowering and engaging students in elementary, middle, and high school and the tools that can transform the nature of student-centered assessment. Last, we'll continually measure tools and ideas by the extent to which they employ and foster student voice and choice, self-assessment, and self-reporting.

Returning to the anecdote that opened this chapter, if you were in John Sculley's shoes, how could you possibly ignore the question posed by Steve Jobs: "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?" Pardon my extension of this notion, but maybe we should ask ourselves a similar question: "Do we want to continue to shut kids out of testing, grading, and reporting decisions, or do we want to explore ways to truly and authentically involve them in the realm of assessment?"

We can empower students in the assessment process; we just need to establish why it's critical to do so, and then explore how it can be done. On that note, perhaps this book requires an elevator pitch. For now, I'd suggest the following:

In every aspect of assessment, we will engage and empower the student by offering opportunities for student voice, choice, self-assessment, and self-reporting.

Without further ado, it's time to give students a say!