ASSESSMENT VS EVALUATION
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I always had thought that assessment and evaluation was the same,
but after reading "Assessment, Evaluation, Testing and Grading" by
Craig I realized that those terms mean different:
Evaluation is more focused on making a judgment or
determination concerning the quality of a performance, work product or use of
skills against a set of standards. Evaluations are designed for and intended to
document the level of achievement that has been attained.
An assessment, on the other hand, is more focused
on measuring a performance, work product, or skill in order to offer
feedback to document strengths and growth and to provide directives for
improving future performance. Assessments are nonjudgmental and are designed
and intended to be helpful to produce improvement.
We as teachers need more instruction on
assessment and evaluation. Both teachers and students need to be aware of the
importance of these concets and how it can improve the learning and teaching
process as well. For this, we need to keep learning about it and more
importantly, start applying this knowledge in our classrooms.
That's right, Sandy. We need to be aware of the needs that our students have, not only pay attention to the 'testing part' but to be able to keep the process of learning and make it important to us, as teachers. I was wondering, how would you put your own conclusion in practice?
ReplyDeleteyou know I have to admit it that I also confused the two concepts, actually I really appreciate you described each one of them in a simple way, and I agree with you when you said "We as teachers need more instruction on assessment and evaluation" because there is a fact that nowadays lots of veteran teachers in many areas even fail to distinguish or use these two concepts.
ReplyDeleteThat's completely true Sandy. When I started this programme I didn't have any idea about this two concept "Assesment and evaluation". Besides, neither we have a good translation for assesment word in Spanish, the students didn't know what assesment is about; they just identify asssesment, evaluation as a test, as grading. Due to the fact that this ignorance, we as future teachers should make a big effort in order to change those old concepts.
ReplyDeleteAssessment drives learning. Students take great trouble to find out exactly what the examination will be like. Why is this? Because they just want to pass the examination, of course! There is always too much to learn, so it makes sense to concentrate on what you need to know to pass the exam. We may want our students to be able to make analyzes – but if our tests only test facts, the students will quickly learn just to memorize facts. If, on the other hand, they know that the test consists of problems to identify and manage, they will study each weakness in such a way that they understand it.
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