In this latest installment of an ongoing series of "Kappan" articles revealing the power of student-involved classroom assessment FOR learning, Rick Stiggins examines how the emotional dynamics of student success or failure impact each learner's sense of academic confidence or self-doubt moving forward. Those dynamics, he contends, have taken on critical new importance given the post-pandemic hopelessness that has swept our schools. He offers concrete research-based remedies that help students believe in themselves as confident capable learners. Those remedies engage students in collaborations with their teachers to monitor and gain control over their own ongoing learning success.