ABSTRACT
An important and integral aspect of your work in teaching will be the assessment of your students. In England and Wales in particular, assessment has been the focus of increased interest, and indeed reform, during the past fifteen years or more. At the time of writing, the DfES has placed an emphasis on the need to streamline the assessment process in order to reduce the burden of assessment, but also to ensure that the assessment process is transparent, rigorous and consistent over time, and to emphasise the need for external assessment, thus reducing the amount of assessment undertaken through coursework.
