"Educational assessment or educational evaluation is the systematic process of documenting and using empirical data on the knowledge, skill, attitudes, aptitude and beliefs to refine programs and improve student learning."
Assessment and evaluation involve measuring student learning and progress. It includes the use of various assessment tools and strategies, such as tests, portfolios, and performance-based assessments.
Types of Assessment: Overview of formative, summative, diagnostic, and authentic assessment methods used in education.
Assessment Design and Development: Process of designing and developing assessments that are reliable, valid, and aligned with learning objectives.
Assessment Administration and Scoring: Methods and techniques of administering assessments, scoring, grading, and interpreting results.
Evaluation Design and Development: Process of designing and developing evaluation plans that measure the effectiveness of educational programs and practices.
Qualitative and Quantitative Data Analysis: Methods and techniques of analyzing data including descriptive and inferential statistics, as well as qualitative analysis methods.
Curriculum Alignment and Mapping: Process of aligning educational objectives, assessments and learning experiences with the curriculum and mapping the results.
Formative Assessment Strategies: Methods and techniques of using formative assessments in the classroom to improve student learning and adjust teaching strategies.
Standardized Testing and Test Preparation: Overview of standardized tests commonly used in education, including strategies for test preparation and test-taking skills.
Data-Driven Decision Making and Continuous Improvement: Methods and techniques of using data to drive decision-making and continuous improvement in education.
Technology Tools for Assessment and Evaluation: Overview of technology tools and resources available for creating, administering, and analyzing assessments and evaluations.
"Assessment data can be obtained from directly examining student work to assess the achievement of learning outcomes or can be based on data from which one can make inferences about learning."
"Assessment is often used interchangeably with test, but not limited to tests."
"Assessment can focus on the individual learner, the learning community, a course, an academic program, the institution, or the educational system as a whole (also known as granularity)."
"The word 'assessment' came into use in an educational context after the Second World War."
"As a continuous process, assessment establishes measurable and clear student learning outcomes, providing a sufficient amount of learning opportunities to achieve these outcomes, implementing a systematic way of gathering, analyzing and interpreting evidence to determine how well student learning matches expectations."
"Assessment is an important aspect of the educational process which determines the level of accomplishments of students."
"The final purpose of assessment practices in education depends on the theoretical framework of the practitioners and researchers, their assumptions and beliefs about the nature of the human mind, the origin of knowledge, and the process of learning."
"...using empirical data on the knowledge, skill, attitudes, aptitude, and beliefs to refine programs and improve student learning."
"Assessment data can be obtained from directly examining student work to assess the achievement of learning outcomes..."
"Assessment can focus on the individual learner, the learning community, a course, an academic program, the institution, or the educational system as a whole..."
"Implementing a systematic way of gathering, analyzing and interpreting evidence to determine how well student learning matches expectations."
"Assessment establishes measurable and clear student learning outcomes."
"...providing a sufficient amount of learning opportunities to achieve these outcomes, implementing a systematic way of gathering, analyzing and interpreting evidence to determine how well student learning matches expectations, and using the collected information to inform improvement in student learning."
"Assessment is an important aspect of the educational process which determines the level of accomplishments of students."
"The final purpose of assessment practices in education depends on the theoretical framework of the practitioners and researchers..."
"Assessment... determines the level of accomplishments of students."
"Using empirical data on the knowledge, skill, attitudes, aptitude, and beliefs to refine programs and improve student learning."
"The final purpose of assessment practices in education depends on the... assumptions and beliefs about the nature of the human mind, the origin of knowledge, and the process of learning."
"As a continuous process, assessment establishes measurable and clear student learning outcomes, provides a sufficient amount of learning opportunities to achieve these outcomes, implements a systematic way of gathering, analyzing and interpreting evidence..."