Defining and communicating to students where their learning journeys are headed and why they are focussed on a specific goal, allows for purposeful learning. Students can make connections with their daily lessons, activities, homework, etc and learning goals when they know why they are learning and how they will be assessed on a goal. This inevitably deepens understanding, increases transfer skills, and pushes students to work on their critical thinking skills (They'll ask: "How is this related to longer term learning goals?"). Alison Ya-Wen Yang outlines how to create assessment roadmaps and how, "...using an assessment roadmap as a guide can also lead to better alignment between criterion-based grading and student growth goals" in her article, Use an Assessment Roadmap to Reduce Students’ Anxiety and Promote Student Agency.