EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT

CONTENT INTRODUCTION DISCUSSION CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION
Education professionals make distinctions between assessment and evaluation. However, for the purposes of this tutorial, all us really need to understand that these are two different terms for referring to the process of figuring out how much we know about a given topic and that each term has a different meaning.

INTRODUCTION
Evaluation is the process of making judgments based on criteria and evidence, then assessment is the process of documenting knowledge, skills, attitudes and beliefs, usually in measurable terms. The goal of assessment is to make improvements, as opposed to simply being judged. In an educational context, assessment is the process of describing, collecting, recording, scoring, and interpreting information about learning.

DISCUSSION
Evaluation: approaches to making judgments

Product Evaluation

Process Evaluation

Those interested in how well students perform in schools-parents, educational systems, employers, universities, government planners and so forth, need constructive information on student performance to enhance their decision-making effectiveness.

Evaluation is essential to provide feedback to learners.

Evaluation is essential in determining how learners have achieved the stated objectives.

Evaluation provides useful information to curriculum developers to clarify the stated objectives.

Function of Evaluation
Evaluation provides information to improve curricula.

Information from evaluation is employed by students in personal decision.

Formative Evaluation

TYPE OF EVALUATION

Diagnostic Evaluation

Summative Evaluation

EVALUATION PROCESS

MEASUREMEN T (Data collection)

ASSESSMENT (Data interpretation)

EVALUATION (Judgment)

Appraising

Selecting

Clarifying Instructional Objectives

Use of Assessment
Counseling

Determining and reporting pupil achievement of education objectives

Accountability and program evaluation

Planning, directing, and improving learning experiences

LearnerCentered Builds on Good Teaching Practices

TeacherDirected

Characteristics of Classroom Assessment

Ongoing
Mutually Beneficial

ContextSpecific

Formative

CONCLUSION
Assessment is classroom research to provide useful feedback for the improvement of teaching and learning. Assessment is feedback from the student to the instructor about the students learning. Evaluation uses methods and measures to judge student learning and understanding of the material for purposes of grading and reporting. Evaluation is feedback from the instructor to the student about the students learning. The term assessment and evaluation are quite different, for example, an 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.