Title: Assessment and evaluation: A Conceptual difference
Abstract: Assessment is sometimes used interchangeably with evaluation, but they are technically different and two distinct activities and distinctive terms ). Lynch's book, Language assessment and programme evaluation is totally devoted to examine all overlapping areas of assessment and evaluation. remarks that program evaluation often makes use of data from language assessment, so they overlap and evaluation can include assessment. distinguishes evaluation from assessment and says that evaluation "is concerned with the overall program and not just with what individual students have learnt" (p.137). In the same vein, states that evaluation "goes beyond student achievement (and language assessment) to consider all aspects of teaching and learning and to look at how educational decisions can be informed by results of alternative forms of assessment" (p.145). He describes assessment of an individual student's progress as an important part of evaluation; "it is that part of evaluation that...
Publication Year: 2022
Publication Date: 2022-06-06
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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