An electrode assembly for a battery that can improve safety of the ceramic layer and increase lifetime capacity and high rate charge/discharge capacity and low temperature charge/discharge capacity of the electrode assembly. The electrode assembly having a porous ceramic layer coated on at least one surface of the positive electrode plate or the negative electrode plate to prevent an electrical short between the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate, where a main peak of pore size of the ceramic layer is in the range of 20 nm to 80 nm, and a secondary battery including the electrode assembly.