I can recognize the ongoing nature of assessment
As everything else in education, assessment is a process. In some cases a very long process. It seems to me that education changes so often in some ways but getting real results from assessment hasn't changed. The part that has changed is what we do with the information. Please see below in the links my visual metaphor of assessment and my bumper sticker about assessment.
In our course work we also listened to an interview of Dylan Williams. Dylan is an Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at University College London. After listening to his interview, I wrote a response to what I heard. My response is easily understood without having to listen to the interview.