Assessment and evaluation of children's physical fitness should be an educational process. This process is described as the "personalized self-testing" approach. This approach is a form of self-assessment that teaches children to assess their personal level of health-related physical fitness, interpret the results, and use the information (with the teachers help) to develop personal fitness goals. Fitness self-assessment attempts to minimize or eliminate experiences that are negative and comparative, while making fitness assessment student centered, personalized, and educational. In this article, the authors discuss the benefits of the "personalized self-testing approach" and strategies to put it into action. (Contains 3 figures.)