I have not had a chance to sit down and really read this closely, but the comments section is quite lively. And his questions seem apt.
Alex Small is the author and the title is “Some Questions for Assessophiles.”
Representative paragraph:
Do you think that faculty members who eschew your exercises don’t pay attention to how students perform when we try new things? Yes, we all know someone who drones on for an hour thrice weekly, never sees students in office hours and gives only multiple-choice tests. But are all the rest of us similarly suspect? And if an honest assessment effort demonstrated that students weren’t learning anything from Professor Droning On, what concrete steps would you actually be prepared to take?