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Postgraduate education programmes in health professions need to assess their students’ ability to practise in relation to the expected standards and to verify that students have met certain criteria upon programme completion (Ossenberg et al., 2015). Assessment of clinical practice must also correspond with the requirements for knowledge, skills, and professional judgements stipulated in national regulatory requirements. In this context, the importance of having valid and reliable assessment tools for the assessment process is clear (Shumway and Harden, 2003; McCarthy and Murphy, 2008; Wu et al., 2015). The present paper reports on a process to update and validate the tool Assessment of Clinical Education (AssCE-master) for use in clinical postgraduate nursing education.