The aim of this study is to examine, with regard to different variables, the articles written on thesubject of assessment and evaluation in the field of foreign language teaching at higher educationlevel in Turkey, by collecting them into a corpus. In this descriptive qualitative study based on thescanning model, a total of 64 articles published on the subject of assessment and evaluation wereaccessed from the database of the Yükseköğretim Akademik Arama (Higher Education AcademicSearch) (http://akademik.yok.gov.tr/AkademikArama/), by means of the purposeful samplingmethod. Utilising the document review technique, the articles were analysed by the content analysismethod with regard to the variables “publication year”, “research type”, “data collection technique”,“subject” (theme) and “keywords”. The research findings reveal that the highest number of articleson assessment and evaluation in foreign language teaching were published in the last two years(2016-2017), that the articles concentrated mostly on the subjects of foreign language teachingprogrammes, the quality of assessment and evaluation tools in foreign language teaching, thechanging syllabi in the field of foreign language teaching, and evaluation of the European LanguagePortfolio and of coursebooks, and that for these studies, the views of different study groups wereconsulted. Moreover, in this context, it was determined that with regard to method, the types ofstudies were mostly descriptive, while the research data were obtained by means of questionnaire,open-ended question, and interview techniques.