In addition to ensuring universal access to education, it is necessary to know whether students learn. Thus, the learning assessment can contribute to quality education. The initial research question, selected by the research team, was: what is Learning Assessment? In order to answer this question, an exploratory study was carried on this complex topic, with the objective of obtaining a mapping of its structure. Through a bibliometric analysis of data collected from Scopus, it was possible to make an exploratory analysis of 3983 documents, from 1971 to 2020. From the metadata of these documents, an analysis was made of the co-occurrence of the keywords and the co-citation of these documents. The data were analyzed with the support of various software that allowed us to obtain significant results, in order to select a sample of relevant articles. This sample will be the subject of a future content analysis. In addition to the results obtained, the teamwork proved to be an asset for the development of the literature review where each member can contribute with their expertise to create relevant knowledge on this topic. This synthesis will be the result of the synergy of the collaborative work of interinstitutional and international research.