Learning for assessment or Assessment for learning?

Once upon a time a child asked to her mother, "Mommy, mommy, was I born for the sake of going to school?"

When the child went to school, she asked to her mother, "Mommy, mommy, was I sent to school for the sake of tests?"

"...on behalf of SCERT Kerala I welcome Prof. Jacob Tharu to the second round of workshop on evaluation".


"...What I would like to do is to begin with the issues which propped up during the last workshop. Specifically we can think about the conceptual understandings and issues related with assessment."