Below is a summary of The SENCO Role – Leading on Assessment, by Tracy Edwards and Mhairi C Beaton. Wolsey Summary: Assessment for the needs of SEND means different things at different times. However, best practice for a SENCO is essentially two fold: 1. Encourage the adoption, through directing whole school pedagogy and assessment cycles, of multi-faceted and holistic means of assessing SEND pupils while encouraging those results to be interpreted sceptically and subjec