C. It actively promotes learning and skills beyond the act itself

The question here is, ‘what will this enable me to do that I can’t already do?’ Testing of existing knowledge isn’t very satisfying unless students have doubts about what they know and can do. This can be achieved in simple self-tests throughout a program.
Substantial assessment tasks need to go beyond this—they are about doing something with the knowledge acquired, not just showing it has been acquired.
Assessment can consolidate existing learning and give students confidence in using it as well as extending it in new areas.
eg. Activities based on scenarios in which students apply knowledge and ways of thinking in new situations of kinds that might realistically encounter after graduation.

The question here is, ‘what will this enable me to do that I can’t already do?’ Testing of existing knowledge isn’t very satisfying unless students have doubts about what they know and can do. This can be achieved in simple self-tests throughout a program.