In conclusion, assessment is an essential task of any professional
who has to make sound decision about students’ learning.
Assessments without any quality control, as it is often the case in
educational practice, risk poor quality leading to invalid assessment
and unintended learning processes and outcomes. Awareness
about what constitutes assessment quality is an essential
condition to assure assessment quality on the long term. The
quality pyramid of assessment can provide schools and institutions
a helpful tool to analyse the quality of assessment on each of the six
entities. In practice, it can be observed that quality assurance is
often translated into criteria, procedures and checklists that are
administered before, during and after an assessment. This special
issue intends to contribute to the awareness that quality assurance
in assessment is not only a matter of control (using checklists and
procedures), but mainly guaranteed by the quality of the users
(students and teachers) and the way this is reflected in the spirit
instead of the letter of assessment.