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GLOSARIO DE EVALUACIÓN EDUCATIVA

Icela López Gaspar

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.

Recuperado de: Tkt Glossary Of English Language Teaching (Elt) Terminology. (2015). Cambridge
English, Language Assessment

Luis Manuel Flores Arciga

Evaluation is a broader term than ‘test’. It includes all types and examinations in it. Its purpose is not
only to check the knowledge of the learner. But all the aspects of the learner.

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.

A test refers to a tool, technique or a method that is intended to measure students’ knowledge or their
ability to complete a particular task. In this sense, testing can be considered as a form of assessment.
Tests should meet some basic requirements, such as validity and reliability.

Teaching is a process in which one individual teaches or instruct another individual. Teaching is
considered as the act of imparting instructions to the learners in the classroom situation. It is watching
systematically.

Recuperado de: Physicscatalyst. (May 17, 2019). What is Evaluation in Education. 2020, de
physicscatalyst Sitio web: https://physicscatalyst.com/graduation/evaluation-in-education/
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Great Schools Partnership. (2015). Assessment Definition. 2020, de Great Schools Partnership Sitio
web: https://www.edglossary.org/assessment/

Mohammed, R.. (September 30, 2018). Definition of Testing, Assessment and Evaluation. 2020, de
myenglishpages Sitio web: https://www.myenglishpages.com/blog/definition-of-testing-assessment-
and-evaluation/

Physicscatalyst. (February 16, 2018). Concept of Teaching and its definition : Learning And Teaching
(B.Ed. NOTES). 2020, de physicscatalyst Sitio web: https://physicscatalyst.com/graduation/teaching-
definition/

Suzette Miranda Marmolejo

Evaluation: determination of the value, nature, character, or quality of something or someone.

Testing: something (such as a series of questions or exercises) for measuring the skill, knowledge,
intelligence, capacities, or aptitudes of an individual or group.

Assessment: the action or an instance of making a judgment about something : the act of assessing
something : APPRAISAL. The amount assessed : an amount that a person is officially required to
pay especially as a tax

Teaching: the act, practice, or profession of a teacher.

Recuperado de: Merriam Webster

Merriam-Webster. (n.d.). Evaluation. In Merriam-Webster.com dictionary. Retrieved February 1,
2020, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evaluation
Merriam-Webster. (n.d.). Test. In Merriam-Webster.com dictionary. Retrieved February 1, 2020, from
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/test
Merriam-Webster. (n.d.). Assessment. In Merriam-Webster.com dictionary. Retrieved February 1,
2020, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assessment
Merriam-Webster. (n.d.). Teaching. In Merriam-Webster.com dictionary. Retrieved February 1, 2020,
from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/teaching
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Michel Veronica Castro Buruel

Assessing: One of the jobs we are always asked to do as teaches is to assess our students. In other
words, we are required to say how good or bad they are. The traditional way to assess has been
through using tests. In order to assess learners and learning, we need some data about the student. If
we are interested in the students' development, we need to assess the student over a period of time.
Four main reasons for assessment are: 1. To compare students with each other. 2. To see if students
meet a particular standard. 3. To help the students´ learning. 4. To check if the teaching programme
is doing its job.

Testing: Every time we ask students to answer a question to which we already know the answer, we
are giving them a kind of test. Much of what we do in class is, in fact, testing students´ knowledge.
Testing has, traditionally, measured the results of students’ performance. Testing has, traditionally,
measured the results of student performance.

We choose some representative samples of language.

We measure whether a student can use these samples.

We then try to quantify this by turning it into a mark or grade.

We keep a record of these marks and use this to give an end assessment.

Over time, all testing theory (whether languages or shampoo development) has traditionally been
based on a semi-scientific procedure, namely: 1 Measure the performance. 2 Do something to affect
the performance. 3 Measure the performance again and compare the different.

Teaching: Teaching and testing go hand-in-hand. We can think we are teaching when we are actually
testing.

Evaluation: Evaluation is not limited to numbers or just giving students marks. Instead of trying to
count or measure students´ ability to make useful contributions to the class, we can simply judge
whether he/she makes a contribution or not. In other words, you can be subjective as well as
objective. But when we make judgments, we must realise that other people, including teachers and
students may not agree with what we think. Evaluation means that sometimes we will have to justify,
negotiate, and possibly modify our opinions. We may need more than one judge- we may even need a
jury.
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Andy Baxter. (1997). Evaluating your students. London: Richmond Publishing

Salazar Montenegro Sara Betsabe

Evaluation:
Careful thought about something before making a judgement about about its value, importance, or
quality

Evaluation education:
the process of deciding if the goals of a course have been achieved, or if a course meets recognized
standards.

Assessment:
The act of judging or deciding the amount value, quality or importance of something or the
judgement or decision that is made.

Testing:
The act or practice of giving test of measure someone's knowledge or ability.

Teaching:
To give someone knowledge or to train someone, to instruct.
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Taken from
Cambridge University Press. (2008). Cambridge online dictionary, Cambridge Dictionary online.
Retrieved at April 23, 2008, from the website temoa : Open Educational Resources (OER) Portal at
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/es/

Maria Gregoria Alzate Partida

Evaluation: On ongoing process that involves the gathering and organizing of data on a teacher’s academic
activity, the peers, and administrators or outside observers, conduct the evaluation to gauge a teacher’s
effectiveness for improvement. -Katie Duzan. 2020. Maria G. Alzate

Assessment: Documenting, usually measurable terms and knowledge, skills, attitudes and beliefs. Focus on
individual learners, learning community (classrooms, workshops, groups or learners) in the institution,
educational system as whole. –Academic Room

Testing: 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.-Penn State University

Teaching: The act, practice, occupation, or art of profession of a teacher.-American Heritage

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Academic Room. (2013). What is Educational Assessment. 1/27/2020, de Academic Room Sitio web:
http://www.academicroom.com/topics/what-is-educational-assessment

American Heritage. (2016). teaching. 1/27/2020, de The FREE Dictionary by Farlex Sitio web: Academic
Room. (2013). What is Educational Assessment. 1/27/2020, de Academic Room Sitio web:
http://www.academicroom.com/topics/what-is-educational-assessment American Heritage® Dictionary of the
English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Duzan. K. (2019). What is educational evaluation? 1/27/2020, de Classroom Sitio web:

https://classroom.synonym.com/what-educational-evaluation-5006257.html

Penn State University. (2017). Differences between Testing, Assessment, and Evaluation. 1/27/2020, de !Study
for Success! Sitio web: http://tutorials.istudy.psu.edu/testing/testing2.html

America Vanessa Solorio Guzmán

1. Evaluation: Evaluation involves the final product – what educators actually do with all of the information
gathered from any assessment procedures they have employed; essentially, it is an objective judgment based on
all of the evidence that has been assembled. Çelik, S., & Türkan, S. (2014).

2.Assessment: Assessment refers to an ongoing process of observing, recording information, testing, scoring and
interpreting results, which can be used to make decisions about the progress of individuals and/or groups of
learners. As Angelo and Cross (1993) explain, teachers use assessment to obtain feedback on “what, how much
and how well their students are learning”. Çelik, S., & Türkan, S. (2014).

3.Testing: A test can be described as a specific evaluation tool that is used to obtain information about a learner’s
achievement with respect to a given skill or procedure; this information can be objectively evaluated and scored
(American Education Research Association, 1999). Çelik, S., & Türkan, S. (2014).
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4.Teaching: Teaching is a set of events, outside the learners which are designed to support the internal process
of learning. Sequeira, A.H.. (2012).

References:

Çelik, S., & Türkan, S. (2014). Assessment and evaluation in EFL: Classroom methods, Standardized Testing,
and Preparing Learners for High-Stakes Exams. Academia. Retrieved from:
https://www.academia.edu/26549006/Assessment_and_Evaluation_in_EFL_Classroom_Methods_Standardized
_Testing_and_Preparing_Learners_for_High-Stakes_Exams?auto=download

Sequeira, A.H.. (2012). INTRODUCTION TO CONCEPTS OF TEACHING AND LEARNING. SSRN.

Reseachgate. Retrieved from:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272620585_INTRODUCTION_TO_CONCEPTS_OF_TEACHING_
AND_LEARNING

JAIR OSVALDO HERRERA GURROLA

Evaluation refers to the systematic gathering of information for the purpose of making decisions. It is not concerned with
the assessment of the performance of an individual, but rather with forming an idea of the curriculum and making a
judgment about it. This judgment is made based on some kind of criteria and evidence. The purpose is to make decisions
about the worth of instruction, a course, or even the whole curriculum. Evaluation is thus larger and may include an analysis
of all the aspects of the educational system. Mohammed, R.(2019)

Assessment is thus the process of collecting information about students from diverse sources so that educators can form an
idea of what they know and can do with this knowledge. While evaluation is concerned with making judgments about
instruction, a curriculum, or an educational system, assessment is concerned with the students’ performance. In other
words, one assesses an individual but evaluates a program, a curriculum, an educational system, etc.Mohammed, R.(2019)
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Testing. Simply put, a test refers to a tool, technique or a method that is intended to measure students knowledge or their
ability to complete a particular task. In this sense, testing can be considered as a form of assessment. Tests should meet
some basic requirements, such as validity and reliability. Validity refers to the extent to which a test measures what it is
supposed to measure. Reliability refers to the consistency of test scores when administered on different occasions.

There are different types of tests:

Placement tests: It is designed to help educators place a student into a particular level or section of a language curriculum
or school Diagnostic tests: they help teachers and learners to identify strengths and weaknesses.Proficiency tests: they
measure a learner’s level of language. Achievement tests: they are intended to measure the skills and knowledge learned
after so Teme kind of instruction.Mohammed, R.(2019)

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. Interventions commonly take the form of questioning, listening, giving information,
explaining some phenomenon, demonstrating a skill or process, testing understanding and capacity, and facilitating
learning activities (such as note taking, discussion, assignment writing, simulations and practice). Smith, M.k. (2018)

REFERENCIAS: Mohommed, R. (2019). Definition of testing, assessment and evaluation. My english pages.
https://www.myenglishpages.com/blog/definition-of-testing-assessment-and-evaluation/ retrieved: 02/01/20

Smith, M. K. (2018). ‘What is teaching?’ in the encyclopaedia of informal education. [http://infed.org/mobi/what-is-

teaching/. Retrieved: 02/01/20

Catherine Rachel Llamas Heredia

Evaluation: is the process of making judgments based on criteria and evidence.

Testing: is the process of documenting knowledge, skills, attitudes and beliefs, usually in measurable
terms. The goal of assessment is to make improvements, as opposed to simply being judged. In an
educational context, assessment is the process of describing, collecting, recording, scoring, and
interpreting information about learning.
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Assessment: Assessing student learning is something that every teacher has to do, usually quite
frequently. Written tests, book reports, research papers, homework exercises, oral presentations,
question-and-answer sessions, science projects, and artwork of various sorts are just some of the ways
in which teachers measure student learning, with written tests accounting for about 45 percent of a
typical student's course grade (Green & Stager, 1986/1987). It is no surprise, then, that the typical
teacher can spend between one-third and one-half of her class time engaged in one or another type of
measurement activity (Stiggins, 1994). Yet despite the amount of time teachers spend assessing student
learning, it is a task that most of them dislike and that few do well. One reason is that many teachers
have little or no in-depth knowledge of assessment principles (Crooks, 1988; Hills, 1991; Stiggins,
Griswold, & Wikelund, 1989). Another reason is that the role of assessor is seen as being inconsistent
with the role of teacher (or helper). Since teachers with more training in assessment use more
appropriate assessment practices than do teachers with less training (Green & Stager, 1986/1987), a
basic goal of this chapter is to help you understand how such knowledge can be used to reinforce,
rather than work against, your role as teacher. Toward that end, we will begin by defining what we
mean by the term assessment and by two key elements of this process, measurement and evaluation.

Teaching: Teaching is to cause the student to learn and acquire the desired knowledge, skills and also
desirable ways of living in the society. It is a process in which learner, teacher, curriculum and other
variables are organised in a systematic and psychological way to attain some predetermined goals.

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https://college.cengage.com/education/pbl/tc/assess.html
http://tutorials.istudy.psu.edu/testing/testing2.html
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Azaira Paola Ortiz Orozco

Teaching:

Teaching is a process in which one individual teaches or instruct another individual. Teaching is
considered as the act of imparting instructions to the learners in the classroom situation. It is
watching systematically. Dewey:- considers it as a manipulation of the situation, where the learner
will acquire skills and insight with his own initiation. The main function of teaching is to make
learning effective. The learning process would get completed as a result of teaching. (Physicscatalyst,
2018)

Testing:

Simply put, a test refers to a tool, technique or a method that is intended to measure students
knowledge or their ability to complete a particular task. In this sense, testing can be considered as a
form of assessment. Tests should meet some basic requirements, such as validity and reliability.

· Validity refers to the extent to which a test measures what it is supposed to measure.

· Reliability refers to the consistency of test scores when administered on different occasions.
(RHALMI, 2018)

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. (Partnership, 2015)

Assessment is thus the process of collecting information about students from diverse sources so that
educators can form an idea of what they know and can do with this knowledge. While evaluation is
concerned with making judgments about instruction, a curriculum, or an educational system,
assessment is concerned with the students’ performance. In other words, one assesses an individual
but evaluates a program, a curriculum, an educational system, etc. (RHALMI, 2018)

Evaluation:

In the educational context, the verb ‘to evaluate’ often collocates with terms such as:
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the effectiveness of an educational system, a program, a course, instruction, a curriculum.

According to Weiss (1972), evaluation refers to the systematic gathering of information for the
purpose of making decisions. It is not concerned with the assessment of the performance of an
individual, but rather with forming an idea of the curriculum and making a judgment about it. This
judgment is made based on some kind of criteria and evidence. The purpose is to make decisions
about the worth of instruction, a course, or even the whole curriculum. Evaluation is thus larger and
may include an analysis of all the aspects of the educational system. (RHALMI, 2018)

References

Partnership, G. S. (2015, October 11). GLOSSARY OF EDUCATION REFORM. Retrieved

from GLOSSARY OF EDUCATION REFORM: https://www.edglossary.org/assessment/

Physicscatalyst. (2018, February 16). Physics Catalyst. Retrieved from Physics Catalyst:
https://physicscatalyst.com/graduation/teaching-definition/

RHALMI, M. (2018, September 30). myenglishpages. Retrieved from myenglishpages:

https://www.myenglishpages.com/blog/definition-of-testing-assessment-and-evaluation/

Blanca Lucia Hinojos Silva

Evaluation is a one moment time; measurement of outcomes to goals. The purpose of evaluation is to
judge quality. It is the process of making judgments based on criteria and evidence determining its
value. Number or words can be used students are often motivated by the value. Summative because
we focus on the final judge quality.

Testing is only part of the process of evaluation according to Rea Dickens 1993. It is used to examine
someone’s knowledge of something to determine what the person or student knows or has learned.
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Testing measures the level of skill or knowledge that has been reached. It can be quiz or exam we can
only draw a conclusion from testing with numbers.

Assessment is a systematic collection (there’s a structure); on going process; collect data to inform
instruction, small things we are doing along the way to check for understanding. It is an ongoing
process. The purpose of assessment is to increase quality

Teaching is to instruct someone… is not a matter of getting him to commit results to mind. Rather, it
is to teach him to participate in the process that makes possible the establishment of knowledge. We
teach a subject not to produce little living libraries on that subject, but rather to get a student to think
mathematically for himself, to consider matters as an historian does, to take part in the process of
knowledge-getting. Knowing is a process not a product.

Dickens, P. R. (1993). Language teaching : a scheme for teacher education. Oxford. Retrieved from
https://eclass.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/ENL264/Pauline%20Rea-
Dickins%2C%20Kevin%20Germaine%20Evaluation%20Language%20Teaching%20a%20Scheme
%20for%20Teacher%20Education%201993.pdf

Burton R. (2017, November 9). Evaluation and Assessment Retrieved from youtube
https://youtu.be/1UjiHA3g39g
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What is evaluation?
Evaluation is the process of determining merit, worth, or significance; an evaluation is a product of
that process.

What is testing?
A test refers to a tool, technique or a method that is intended to measure students knowledge or their
ability to complete a particular task. In this sense, testing can be considered as a form of assessment.
Tests should meet some basic requirements, such as validity and reliability.
Validity refers to the extent to which a test measures what it is supposed to measure.
Reliability refers to the consistency of test scores when administered on different occasions.

What is 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.

What is teaching?
In education, 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.

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Siria Shanel DUfour Carrillo

Evaluation:
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A process where in the parts, processes or outcomes of a programme are examined

to see whether they are satisfactory, particularly with reference to the programmes
stated objectives, our own expectations or our own standards of excellence.
(Tuckman,1975)
Testing:
A method to determine a student’s ability to complete certain tasks or demonstrate
mastery of a skill or knowledge of content. While it is used with assessment, or even
evaluation, it can be distinguished by the fact that a test is one form of an
assessment.
(Terry Overton, 1996)
Assessment:
The process of gathering information to monitor progress and make educational
decision if necessary. (Terry Overton, 1996)
The word assessment is derived from the latin word “assidere” meaning “to sit
beside or with” (Wiggins,1993).
In assessment the teacher sits with the learner and is something teachers do with
and for the students rather than to the students. (Green, 1998)
Teaching:
The purpose of education is not to impart knowledge, but instead to facilitate thinking
and problem solving skills which can then be transferred to a range situations. (
Bruner,1961)