with a fixed timetable of regular assessments costa rica might consider alternating the subjects assessed at lower secondary level to enable the evaluation of more of the curriculum including the more innovative dimensions of education for global citizenship and sustainable development for example at no point has the assessment sampled the entire census of schools in a way that would enable school leaders teachers students parents and the local community to understand whether their institution is achieving national learning objectives or whether it is more or less successful than other similar schools the national assessment could help teachers understand how the new national competencebased curriculum can be tested in practice and ensure classroombased assessments are setting the same standards across the country