To explore current assessment practices and their effects among teaching and learning. This includes assessment approaches, methods, implementation procedures, appropriateness to learning objectives, and problems/difficulties encountered.

To identify good and innovative practices in assessment. To critically review the strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement of existing practices. To analyse components of practices that demonstrate a strong effect on student learning. To examine assessment on how instruction and curriculum could be aligned while motivating deeper learning behaviour in the forefront of cognitive and environmental constraints.

To provide on-line teaching development activities based on the resources developed from teachers in higher education. A particular focus will stress on subject specific context issues in assessment, design of student assessment measures, the use of assessment results, the formative role of assessment, and the practical and applicable usages of assessment to sustain their positive impacts on student learning.

To provide a knowledge-based platform for academic exchange that fosters a collaborative spirit between teachers, and to facilitate sharing of ideas, experience, and reflection. To promote the effective use of assessment practices in the higher education sector at the individual subject level, inter-institutional level, as well as inter-cultural level.

To provide ongoing sharing, support and development in assessment to both teachers and students. To keep teachers informed of current issues in assessment and the latest development in practices and research. To continuously solicit contributions from teachers and other education practitioners both in Hong Kong and worldwide, and to disseminate them using a user-friendly categorisation and retrival format to ensure the effective use of assessment practices.