Thinking Activity: Testing and Evaluation

 

Dimension of Difference

Content: timing, primary purpose

Assessment: Formative ongoing,

to improve learning.

Evaluation: Summative: final,

to gauge quality.

Orientation: focus of measurement

Assessment: Process-oriented:

how learning is going.

Evaluation: Product-oriented:

 what’s been learned.

Findings: uses thereof

Assessment: Diagnostic:

 identify areas for improvement

Evaluation: Judgmental:

arrive at an overall grade/score

 

 

 

2) Reliability

Reliability is one of the most important components of test quality. It has to do with relevance, or fertility, or the test taker’s performance on the test. If a test receives inconsistent scores, it may be unethical to take any significant action based on that test. There are several methods for calculating the reliability of a test, including test-reassessment reliability, the reliability of parallel forms, decision consistency, internal consistency, and interrelation reliability. For many criterion-related tests, the relevance of the decision is often the right choice.

 

3)What is Validity and Reliability? 

Validity pertains to the connection between the purpose of the research and which data the researcher chooses to quantify that purpose. 

Reliability, on the other hand, is not at all concerned with intent, instead asking whether the test used to collect data produces accurate results. In this context, accuracy is defined by consistency whether the results could be replicated.

 

 

4) Difference between assessment and evaluation?

 

 

 

5)How do you define good Assessment?

 

Assessments refer to "the various methods that teachers study for academic readiness, learning progress, and students' acquisition, evaluation, measurement, and documentation of skills." Simply put, assessment is how instructors and teachers evaluate whether students have learned the material taught. Assessments can range from a pop quiz to a final exam.