Assessment policy includes the agreements – both on content and procedures – concerning assessment quality. The agreements are partly set by the government. The National Accreditation system of the Netherlands and Flanders for example, which is used as a standard to assess the quality of educational institutions, formulated three standards strongly related to assessment quality: (1) the intended learning outcomes of the programme are translated to the curriculum design, (2) the curriculum, staff and programme-specific services and facilities enable students to master the intended learning outcomes, and (3) there is an adequate assessment system that proves how the intended learning outcomes are achieved (NVAO, 2011). The latter standard is a so-called ‘knock-out criterion’, meaning that a low score on this standard implies a negative judgment for the whole programme. Institutions increasingly describe their agreements regarding assessment quality for internal and external purposes.