Have you considered the assessment discussion going on, that makes a distinction between assessment OF learning and assessment FOR learning? For instance, it is possibly the main topic in everything written by Paul Black, Dylan Wiliam, and Helen Timperley? Some articles, for instance one by Black/Wiliams, about the Black Box, is quite interesting when it comes to this aspect of assessment – and to mention a little more, it is also discussing the difference between feedback and feed forward. Important issues to consider in the teaching profession.