Distinction Between Assessment and Evaluation
DISTINCTION BETWEEN BETWEEN ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION
BY:
ADELEKE, R. S.
UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN sanrasheed@yahoo.com +234 8161377164
INTRODUCTION
In the last fifteen years, much has been written about assessment and evaluation. Educators use two distinct processes to help students build lifelong learning skills: assessment and evaluation. Assessment provides feedback on knowledge, skills, attitudes, and work products for the purpose of elevating future performances and Learning outcomes. Evaluation determines the level of quality of a performance or outcome and enables decision-making based on the level of quality demonstrated. These two processes are complementary and necessary in education. The objective of this paper is to draw important distinctions between assessment and evaluation, underscoring the need for both processes to occur at separate places and times, and ideally through different roles the play in educational improvement of a student.
1.1DEFINITIONS OF THE KEY TERMS
Definition of Assessment
Assessment is a fact finding activities that described condition that exist at a particular time. (NTI, 2006).
Assessment is a process by which information is obtained relative to some known objective of goal (Bob, 2011).
According to The Academic Exchange Quarterly studies of a theoretical or empirical nature (including case studies, portfolio studies,exploratory experimental work) addressing the assessment of learner aptitude and preparation, motivation and learning styles, learning outcomes in achievement and satisfaction in different educational context are all welcome, as are studies addressing issues of measurable standard and benchmarks.
Definition of
BY:
ADELEKE, R. S.
UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN sanrasheed@yahoo.com +234 8161377164
INTRODUCTION
In the last fifteen years, much has been written about assessment and evaluation. Educators use two distinct processes to help students build lifelong learning skills: assessment and evaluation. Assessment provides feedback on knowledge, skills, attitudes, and work products for the purpose of elevating future performances and Learning outcomes. Evaluation determines the level of quality of a performance or outcome and enables decision-making based on the level of quality demonstrated. These two processes are complementary and necessary in education. The objective of this paper is to draw important distinctions between assessment and evaluation, underscoring the need for both processes to occur at separate places and times, and ideally through different roles the play in educational improvement of a student.
1.1DEFINITIONS OF THE KEY TERMS
Definition of Assessment
Assessment is a fact finding activities that described condition that exist at a particular time. (NTI, 2006).
Assessment is a process by which information is obtained relative to some known objective of goal (Bob, 2011).
According to The Academic Exchange Quarterly studies of a theoretical or empirical nature (including case studies, portfolio studies,exploratory experimental work) addressing the assessment of learner aptitude and preparation, motivation and learning styles, learning outcomes in achievement and satisfaction in different educational context are all welcome, as are studies addressing issues of measurable standard and benchmarks.
Definition of
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