Assessment through the Student's Eyes

I really enjoyed reading this article.  I thought it had a lot of really good ideas about how to make each student to learn all that they are capable of.  There is so much to be said for students being their own teachers and letting students learn from their own mistakes.  I really like the idea of student regulated assessments.
I also really like the concept of getting each student to be on a winning streak.  As educators, isn't that our goal?  Don't we want every one of our students to be successful?  If we could truly get each and every one of our students on a winning streak, we would have such a great learning environment for out students.  It is amazing how impressisonable young kids are.  If we help them to believe that they really can do anything that they set their mind to, they will believe it and we will hae a lot of kids out there reaching their full potential.  Wouldn't that be awesome?
I loved the example of the fifth grade student getting to retake the test and earning a 100%.  That teacher definitely had the right idea when it came to assessment. It sounds like it was qutie the form that the students worked through, but it was obviously worth it in the end.  If we want our students to be the best they can be, we are going to have to do a little more work, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.  When we let students figure out for themselves what it is that they don't fully understand, they are going to be a lot more motivated to fix it themselves.  Kids get tired of being told all the time what it is that they are doing wrong.  If we let them figure it out on their own, they will feel accomplished because they could figure it out, and they will know what they personally need to do to fix the problem.
This was a really good article.  I liked a lot of what it had to say.  What did you guys think?