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Assessment noun, assess verb: To discover, judge, or form an opinion on learners’ ability,
achievement, proficiency or progress either formally or informally.
Continuous assessment: A type of assessment which does not involve a final examination. Some
or all of the work that learners do during a course is marked by the teacher on a regular basis
and these marks go into the calculation of the final grade given to learners.
Continuous assessment may include regularly assessing learners’ written work; assessing their
listening, reading and speaking skills; talking to learners; observing them in class; looking at self-
assessments and thinking about learners’ classroom performance.
Diagnostic assessment: A type of assessment aimed at finding out – diagnosing – what language
and skills weaknesses or strengths learners have. Teachers use this information to inform their
future lesson planning. See teacher roles.
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Cambridge English, Language Assessment
Assessment: It refers to the process of gathering and discussing information from diverse sources in
order to develop a deep understanding of what students know, understand, and can do with their
knowledge as a result of their experiences.
Evaluation: It is the means by which we try to identify which aspects of our teaching are good and
which need to be changed. To do so, we must first identify the right questions and find out how to ask
them.
Teaching: It is a set of events, outside the learners which are designed to support internal process of
learning; Those moments or sessions where we make interventions to help people learn particular
things.
Testing: It is the process through which someone´s knowledge is tested to determine what he or she
has learned; Method of measuring a person's ability or performance in a given domain, Brown (2004).
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Assessment: It is a piece of work or an exam done by a student so that the teachers can judge their
level or progress. Is the process of describing, collecting, recording, scoring, and interpreting
information about learning.
Evaluation: It is the process of deciding if the goals of a course have been achieved, or if a course
meets recognized standards.
Teaching: It is the process of attending to people’s needs, experiences and feelings, and intervening so
that they learn particular things, and go beyond the given.
Testing: It is to measure the level of skill or knowledge that has been reached.
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Assessment, and Evaluation’ in Study for Success!
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Assessment: A systematic approach to collecting information and making inferences about the ability
of a student or the quality or success of a teaching course on the basis of various sources of evidence.
Assessment may be done by test, interview, questionnaire, observation, etc. Students may be tested at
the beginning and again at the end of a course to assess the quality of the teaching on a course.
Evaluation: In general, the systematic gathering of information for purposes of decision making
evaluation may use quantitative methods (e.g. tests), qualitative methods (e.g. observation, ratings),
and value judgements. In language planning, evaluation frequently involves gathering information on
patterns of language use, language ability, and attitudes towards language.
Teaching: Teaching is the art and science of helping others to grow in their knowledge and
understanding.
Testing: Use of tests, or the study of the theory and practice of their use, development, evaluation,
etc.
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Richards, J. C., & Schmidt, R. W. (2002). Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and
Applied Linguistics. United Kingdom: Longman Publishing Group.
Assessment: In education, the term assessment refers to the wide variety of methods
or tools that educators use to evaluate, measure, and document the academic
readiness, learning progress, skill acquisition, or educational needs of students.
Teaching: Teaching is the art and science of helping others to grow in their knowledge
and understanding.
Testing: In general, testing is finding out how well something works. In terms of human
beings, testing tells what level of knowledge or skill has been acquired.
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What is testing? - Definition from WhatIs.com. (n.d.). Retrieved February 2, 2020, from
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Assessment: It refers to the wide variety of methods or tools that educators use
to evaluate, measure, and document the academic readiness, learning process,
skill acquisition, or educational needs of students.
References:
The Glossary of Education Reform. (2015, November 10). Assessment.
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Assessment: Refers to the wide variety of methods or tools that educators use
to evaluate, measure, and document the academic readiness, learning process,
skill acquisition, or education needs of students.
Assessment: refers to the wide variety of methods or tools that educators use to
evaluate, measure, and document the academic readiness, learning progress, skill
acquisition, or educational needs of students.
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Teaching: is the process of attending to people’s needs, experiences and feelings, and
intervening so that they learn particular things, and go beyond the given.
Mateos Neila, T. (2013). Assessment for learning: a challenge for teachers and
learners in primary education.
Assessment: The system that involves the process of “taking stock” of, or
understanding an individual's characteristics, status or performance; typically, for
comparing and interpreting the gathered information with other sources of data. It might
involve observations, discussions, interviews, etc.
Assessment. The process of testing students and making judgement about their
knowledge, ability or progress.
Evaluation. The act of forming an opinion of the amount, value or quality of something
after thinking about it carefully.
Teaching. The ideas of a particular person or group, especially about politics, religion or
society, that are taught to other people.
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Testing. the act or practice of giving tests to measure someone's knowledge or ability.
Teaching. searched as teach. Verb. to give someone knowledge or to train someone; to instruct.
Teach [Def. 1]. (n.d.). In Cambridge Dictionary Online. Retrieved January 30, 2020, from
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Testing. (n.d.). In Macmillan Dictionary Online. Retrieved January 30, 2020, from
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Assessment: the action or an instance of making a judgment about something : the act of
assessing something.
Assessment: Assessment is the systematic process of documenting and using empirical data to
measure knowledge, skills, attitudes and beliefs. By taking the assessment, teachers try to
improve the student's path towards learning.
Evaluation: Evaluation focuses on grades and might reflect classroom components other than
course content and mastery level. An evaluation can be used as a final review to gauge the
quality of instruction. It’s product-oriented.
Teaching: teaching is the concerted sharing of knowledge and experience, which is usually
organized within a discipline and, more generally, the provision of stimulus to the psychological
and intellectual growth of a person by another person or artifact.
Testing: the act or practice of giving tests to measure someone's knowledge or ability
References
Testing: The act or practice of giving tests to measure someone's knowledge or ability; Requiring
maximum effort or ability.
References:
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Teach. (n.d.). In Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus.[Noun]. Retrieved from
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Assessment. The wide variety of methods or tools that educators use to evaluate, measure, adn
document the academic readiness, learning progress, skill acquisitions, or educational needs to
students.
Evaluation. Focuses on grades and might reflect classroom components other than course
content and mastery level. An evaluation can be used as a final review to gauge the quality of
instruction. Its product-oriented.
Teaching. The activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill.
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Testing. A procedure for critical evaluation; a means of determining the presence, quality, or
truth of something; a trial.
References.
The Glossary of Education Reform. (10 de noviembre de 2015). Assessment. Portland
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Easy LMS. (n.d.). Assessment vs. Evaluation in Education. Recuperado de
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Assessment: refers to the wide variety of methods or tools that educators use to evaluate,
measure, and document the academic readiness, learning progress, skill acquisition, or
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Teaching: Is the process of attending to people’s needs, experiences and feelings, and
intervening so that they learn particular things, and go beyond the given.
Testing: A procedure for critical evaluation; a means of determining the presence, quality, or truth
of something.
References
Edglossary dictionary. [Def. 1] (n.d) Assessment.
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Business dictionary. [Def. 1] (n.d) Evaluation.
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Infed dictionary. [Def. 1] (n.d) Teaching.
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The free dictionary. [Def. 1] (n.d) Testing.
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Assessment: Assessment for learning (AfL) is an approach, integrated into teaching and
learning, which creates feedback for students and teachers in order to improve learning
and guide their next steps.
Testing: Testing is a procedure designed to elicit certain behavior from which one can
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Teaching: Teaching is a set of events, outside the learners which are designed to
support internal process of learning. Teaching (Instruction) is outside the learner.
Learning is internal to learners.
Referencias
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test-types-of-test-education-essay.php?vre?1
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education. [http://infed.org/mobi/what-is-teaching/.
-Julian Perez Porto y Ana Gardey. Publicado: 2008. Actualizado: 2012.
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-The Glossary of Education Reform. (10 de noviembre de 2015). Assessment.
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Definitions
Assessment: Is the process of gathering and discussing information from
multiple and diverse sources in order to develop a deep understanding of what
students know, understand, and can do with their knowledge as a result of their
educational experiences.
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Evaluation: Is the process by which you make a judgement about the worth of
something. Evaluating, or assessing the value or worth of something, it is an
activity that involves making judgements.
Teaching: Is a process in which learner, teacher curriculum and other variable
are organized in a systematic ways to attain some determined a goals. Teachers
giving some knowledge to the students.
Testing: Is used to examine someone’s knowledge of something to determine
what he or she knows or has learned. Testing measures the level of skill or
knowledge that has been reached.
References:
Differences between Testing, Assessment, and Evaluation. (n.d.). Retrieved
February 6, 2020, from http://tutorials.istudy.psu.edu/testing/testing2.html
What Is Assessment? \ Accreditation & Assessment \ About. (n.d.). Retrieved
February 6, 2020, from https://www.westminster.edu/about/accreditation-
assessment/definition.cfm
What is evaluation? (n.d.). Retrieved February 6, 2020, from
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evaluation-plan/evaluation-zone/about-evaluation/what-is-evaluation.cfm
Definitions
Assessment: the process of considering all the information about a situation or a
person and making a judgement.
Evaluation: the process of judging or calculating the quality, importance,
amount, or value of something
Teaching: the job of being a teacher.
Testing: the act or practice of giving tests to measure someone's knowledge or
ability.
References:
-ASSESSMENT: definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary. Retrieved from:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/assessment
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Evaluation: Evaluation is a process that critically examines a program. It involves collecting and
analyzing information about a program's activities, characteristics, and outcomes.
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Teaching: Teaching is defined as an interactive process, primarily involving classroom talk which
takes place between teachers and pupils and occurs during certain definable activities (Edmund
Amidon, 1967).
Testing: Testing is the practice of making objective judgments regarding the extent to which the
system (device) meets, exceeds or fails to meet stated objectives
References
Learning skills and development, assessment for learning.
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Nature of teaching.
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