Introducing assessment -- Using assessment to promote learning -- Can assessment raise standards? -- The influence of 'high stakes' and 'low stakes' assessment -- Formative and summative assessment : 'We need to talk' -- Marking, feedback and self-assessment : communicating the results of assessment -- Achieving assessment targets -- Equality of opportunity in assessment : the case of boys' underachievement -- Making assessment easier? : the role of e-assessment -- making assessment matter.