The goal of knowledge assessment is not just the final grade, but active mentoring during the learning process.

     Although most people think of exams as actions by which students are sorted and evaluated by their knowledge, they have at least two more equally important purposes. They supply professors with feedback necessary to improve their teaching, but feedback is also what motivates and guides students through the learning process. Assessments give us important data on what our students have learned, what quality and range of knowledge we have achieved and whether we have achieved our goals.

     The true power of assessment is seen in the feedback given to students. Improvement of the quality of the learning process does not only include the classification of the summative student knowledge at the end of a course. More important is the measuring of the knowledge acquired during the course! That is what makes the students more motivated to be successful in learning, take on more responsibility for the course of learning or to diagnose the strong and weak points of their learning on their own, which makes them active participants in the learning process.