近几十年来，教育评估领域取得了重大进展。教育评估作为一项政策问题日益突出，补充了评价学生成绩的新方法。特别是，人们对促进以及衡量、标准和质量的评估模式越来越感兴趣。这些对个体学习者、机构和教育系统本身都有着深远的影响。教育评估为评估领域的学术产出提供了一个焦点。该杂志明确以国际为重点，并鼓励来自广泛的评估系统和文化的贡献。该杂志的目的是探索政策和实践的共性和差异。
Recent decades have witnessed significant developments in the field of educational assessment. New approaches to the assessment of student achievement have been complemented by the increasing prominence of educational assessment as a policy issue. In particular, there has been a growth of interest in modes of assessment that promote, as well as measure, standards and quality. These have profound implications for individual learners, institutions and the educational system itself.Assessment in Education provides a focus for scholarly output in the field of assessment. The journal is explicitly international in focus and encourages contributions from a wide range of assessment systems and cultures. The journal's intention is to explore both commonalities and differences in policy and practice.
