Employers are often less interested in qualifications of their employees rather than in their high performance. The aim of the Erasmus research project “WBLQUAL – An Approach to Qualification through Negotiated Work Based Learning for the EU” is to find a more effective way of improving skills and behaviours of employees through the use of academic workbased learning (WBL) programmes. The research tools used in the research include: (a) Country Specific Reports, focusing on overall situation related to WBL; (b) Online Questionnaires addressed to both employers and workbased learners; (c) Case Studies, aiming to highlight the already existing WBL best practices within companies, as well as in relation to learners and educators. The presentation discusses the main findings of the research, particularly one of the biggest challenges in WBL – alignment of academic assessment and performance monitoring/measuring in the workplace. It is a challenge because three participants involved in WBL have different expectations from the learning process and these expectations should be aligned not only through appropriate learning content, but also through negotiated awareness of learning outcomes and usage of adequate assessment methods and quality criteria. Moreover, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) must engage with employers in order to enable their effective contribution to the assessment process. The paper presentsa theoretical background of the tripartite view of assessment or, in other words, all three participants’ perception of assessment in WBL. Therefore, the paper seeks to answer the main research question: how assessment needs to be modified to support WBL in more effective way? The presentation forms a part of the WBLQUAL ‘section’ of the conference.