Sandra Herbst explains in the foreword to Setting and Using Criteria that "when teachers work not only to share the learning destination with their students, but to identify what quality evidence of learning looks like en route to the learning destination, then students have a much clearer picture o[...]
In the foreword to Self-Assessment and Goal Setting, Heidi Andrade explains that "self-assessment is a key element in formative assessment because it involves students in thinking about the quality of their own work rather than relying on their teacher as the sole source of evaluative judgments." Th[...]