Ipsative assessment is an approach to evaluating student progress that covers a wide range of assessment and feedback practices. In ipsative assessment, students receive an indication of their achievement that represents the extent of their improvements from their previous assessed task(s) in relation to one or more objectives. In turn, ipsative feedback (formal self-referential feedback) describes and celebrates those specific improvements, identifies areas lacking in progress, and proposes feedforward. The delivery of effective ipsative feedback in languages should incorporate tangible comparisons and reflections on at least two different performances throughout a period of time. Thanks to audio-visual feedback, using video feedback tools, such as "Screencast-O-Matic," language teachers can incorporate the principles of ipsative assessment seamlessly into their feedback. Ipsative approaches are ideal for those practitioners who believe that feedback, as an act of learning support, and criterion-referenced assessment, are two completely different operations which can interfere with each other, both in nature and purpose. [For the complete volume, see ED612143.]