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F. It enables students to celebrate and portray achievements

• We are so used to assessment being a private act between student and assessor that we can overlook the potential for assessment to be a representation of learning that can be used beyond the act itself.

• Some assessment tasks, particularly in the latter parts of programs should allow students to create products that indicate and illustrate their achievements to others outside the closed loop of assessor and assessee.

• eg. the final task in the final unit of a Masters program I teach requires students to summarise what they have learned in the previous courses in two pages that they could use as an attachment to a curriculum vitae. It aims to portray their learning to prospective employers.