What is a Test?
\nWhat is an Assessment?
\nWhat is an evaluation?<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, these terms all have different meanings. Tonight in my 515 class we will briefly discuss these differences during our discussion on online assessment and we do It thoroughly in my 531 assessment course. Most of us use these terms interchangeably and do it everyday. I find this mostly true of teachers during the high stakes testing periods that students have to go through. I do not think it’s ‘wrong’ to use them interchangeably but be aware there are differences and if you are speaking to a person with a strong assessment or education psychology background, you may want to use them correctly….so what do they mean?<\/p>\n

Test – an instrument or procedure for observing or describing one or more characteristics of a students using either a numerical scale or classification scheme<\/p>\n

Assessment – process for obtaining information that is used for making decisions about students, curricula, policy, etc.<\/p>\n

Evaluation – process of making a value judgement about the worth of a students product or performance<\/p>\n

Source: Nitko and Brookhart (2010) Educational Assessment of Students (6th edition)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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