SUSAN M. BROOKHART is associate professor of education at Duquesne University. The author of more than forty articles on classroom assessment, educational measurement, program evaluation, and professional development for faculty, she is a past chair of AERA's Special Interest Group in Classroom Assessment, chair of the National Council on Measurement in Education's Outreach and Partnerships Committee, and a regular columnist on education and academics for National Forum, the journal of Phi Kappa Phi.