[Quality criteria for academic assessments according to Kane's framework]

Although the publication of the recommendations of GMA and MFT in 2014 concerning the improvement of assessment quality in medical education had been an important step for the German-speaking faculties, it is still necessary to increase the efforts. There are still some aspects of assessments which were only intimated by the recommendations.Kane's framework for the validation of tests, published in 2013, is of special importance for assessments within medical studies. But the application of this framework hasn't been consequent enough until now. The article tries to give an indirect, general answer to the question, what has to be considered, when assessments in medical education were planned.