One of the beauties of home education is that instructors can teach what they consider to be the most important skills and information. Take the Bible, for example. For a Christian parent, Bible knowledge and application is essential, while a public school teacher might consider it unimportant or even dangerous. Homeschoolers have been warned that standardized testing is moving away from knowledge testing and toward attitude testing - attitudes with which we may not agree. How, then, can we evaluate our progress? A book by Teresa Moon shows us how. She uses a four-step process: 1) diagnose present skills and knowledge; 2) set goals to be achieved; 3) implement a plan to achieve these goals; and, 4) evaluate the degree of success. Lots of practical, common-sense advice is provided to help with our students. She is not against using a scope and sequence like What Your Child Needs to Know; rather, a book like this can be used to help us set our goals. The author also supplies practical and objective tools for evaluating subjective assignments such as essays. Without these, parents may find themselves grading erratically. Employing step-by-step guidelines for assessment and grading, parents are able to evaluate professionally and consistently while pinpointing areas for improvement. Forms are provided with completed examples to help get you started. This updated edition includes a CD of all the forms so you can simply print rather than photocopy.