4. The provision of a bank of well-designed tasks, with marking criteria, can do more than help teachers to make judgements about their pupils’ achievements. Such tasks exemplify activities through which pupils can work towards important goals, such as critical reasoning and the
application of knowledge in new situations. As assessment tasks they can provide pupils with interesting and relevant learning experiences.They should not be allowed to dominate the assessment process and certainly should not be seen as separate measures to be set beside teachers’ judgments.Nor are they intended to confirm teachers’ judgments.Rather they
are part of the evidence that teachers can use, if needed, to ensure that all intended goals are taken into account in their assessment.