ABSTRACT
Pigs are not fattened by being weighed, as critics of assessment are quick to point out. Why invest time, thought and money in assessing students thoroughly, when it would be better to concentrate on the business of teaching, or upon research? Surely pressure for assessment reform is just another example of them trying to hog-tie us, finding busy-work for us to do, work which will produce information which will probably not be used or, if it is used, will somehow be used against us, rather like the league tables have been used against schools?
