ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the relationship between learning and assessment, how these are evaluated and how practitioners are held accountable. It begins by discussing how learning and assessment are fundamentally at the heart of the relationship and how these relate to the evaluation of both teaching and learning. An area of interest for many educationalists is monitoring and evaluation of learning for learners with special educational needs(SEN). Trainee teachers are taught that monitoring learning and assessment are linked and that this provides information for both teachers and learners about the validity and reliability of what is being taught. At the start of the digital age, learning in schools appears to be slowly evolving from a focus on what has already been discovered and prescribed as knowledge towards a focus on critical thinking skills. An important component of assurance of learning process is to analyse and use the information gathered for improvement, and should be the raison detre for assessing student achievement.