The text I referred to earlier as the practice profile could be employed as a means of assessing the situation and hence both directly and indirectly assessing the individual or group who produces it in terms of, for example,  abilities to describe, analyse, critique and carry out action.  The assessment process is then, very strictly about the development of intelligence for decision making not as something restricted to students but as something that all professionals do.  The question then becomes, how may an intelligence building community be created and resourced?

In asking this we ask also how we may increase the quality of access to information required to inform judgement, decision making and action for professionals?  If, we can agree the philosophy, mechanisms and resources necessary to underpin the ‘intelligence community’ of the practice area then, we need to ask how we invite students to participate.