Since assessment focuses on improvement it looks at the quality of performance for future development without established criteria (McArdle, 2007). The process of assessments looks at improving the level of quality but not creating or evaluating quality. Assessments find areas of strengths and weaknesses so that the strengths can continue and the weaknesses can be highlighted and tackled for improvement. The process of assessments is for the learner but it focuses on the performance of the student not the actual student themselves because that would suggest individual improvement plans not the knowledge that needs to be gained. Assessment can be… >>>