The assessment system in Lithuanian schools is too much orientated in a final knowledge of a student and grading that knowledge with actual marks. This does not go along with the goals of education, expected results, and nowadays’ methods. The very new definition, as a helping process of learning, of the assessment is based on the documents that are regulating school’s education content in the country. Assessment is a constant process of storing information about student’s progress in learning, achievements, interpretations, and generalizations. Self-assessment is when a student makes decisions about his or her progress and achievements based on self-analysis and comparison of present and previous achievements. Also, foreseeing the next learning goals and the strategies to reach them. When the general programs and development standards were renewed the dance and theater subjects were added among the other subjects of art. There is no unified program of evaluating the theater subject, however the aims, principles, and the criteria of assessment are clearly stated in General programs. Students are used to being evaluated and getting remarks on their work. On the other hand, the most important aim of assessment is to help the student to get to know him/herself, to understand his/her strong and weak sides, evaluate the level of his/her achievements. The adoption of self-assessment in the process of education fits best for the students of the 5th grade during the transition... [to full text]