Assessment Practices and Educational Quality: Progress, Limitations, and Contemporary Issues

Abstract

This essay discusses about current advances, challenges and limitations about educational assessment and quality. For this purpose, the assessment role on educational processes improvement, and their effects on educational quality was identified. Main findings show that conceptions about assessment and their applications in education have advanced. This have contributed on continuous progress of education practices. Likewise, educational quality have been related to a reflexive transformation through contextual practices. However, challenges and limitations about intended relationship between both concepts persist today.