The Psychology of Education Section 2017 Annual Conference was held in Edinburgh between October 27-28, 2017. Learning, teaching and assessment in education was the theme of the conference. The program offered two keynotes given by Professor Christine Merrell from Durham University and Professor Lisa Woolfson from University of Strathclyde and the Vernon-Wall lecture was presented by Professor Jo-Anne Baird from Oxford University. With the two postgraduate workshops that took place on October 26, this three day conference comprised of one symposium, two workshops, 30 oral paper sessions and 10 posters offered something to everyone interested in learning, teaching and assessment in education. In the closing keynote, Professor Lisa Woolfson shared her insights about the complex relationship between assessment and practice. She emphasised that the relationship between assessment, educational policy and teacher classroom practices is not linear or logical. Not only did she share the findings of her intervention studies in early childhood education with a view to influencing educational policy, but she also discussed how teacher beliefs can influence teacher assessment of learning in children with special educational needs and disabilities in inclusive classrooms. Overall, the conference was thought provoking and full of take-home messages concerning learning, teaching and assessment in education.