The Difference

Between
Assessment and
Evaluation
Técnicas de Evaluación
M.Ed. Karla Avalos Charpentier
What Is Teaching?

 Brainstorm:
 Think of different ways to define “teaching”.
 Write down at least three different definitions of teaching.
 Pair up with someone to choose the best ONE of your six-
plus definitions.
 Share your definitions with the group, one at a time in
sequence.
Definitions of Teaching

 To present information, insights.

 To reveal knowledge or skill.
 To help students learn.
 NOTE: All of the above can be accomplished either
deliberately or incidentally.
 That is, you can teach by means of explicit instruction,
ongoing guidance, deliberate modeling, or accidental
example.
Ways to Improve Teaching
and Learning
 Implement research-based “best practices”.
 Employ an assessment-informed model of teaching
focused on measurable student learning outcomes.
 But first we need to distinguish “assessment” from
“evaluation”.
Assessment vs. Evaluation

 What are the three most striking differences between

the two?
 If we had time, I’d have you …
 Think
 Write
 Pair
 Share
Assessment n Evaluation (various sources, but
especially Dan Apple 1998)

Reflective: Internally Prescriptive:External-

Defined Criteria/Goals ly Imposed Standards
Diagnostic: Identify Judgmental: Arrive at
Areas for Improvement an Overall Grade/Score
Flexible: Adjust As Fixed: To Reward
Problems Are Clarified Success, Punish Failure
Absolute: Strive for Comparative: Divide
Ideal Outcomes Better from Worse
Coöperative: Learn Competitive: Beat
from Each Other Each Other Out
Summary of Differences

Dimension of Difference Assessment Evaluation

Timing Formative Summative

Focus of Measurement Process-Oriented Product-Oriented

Relationship Between
Reflective Prescriptive
Administrator and Recipient

Findings, Uses Thereof Diagnostic Judgmental

Ongoing Modifiability of Criteria,

Flexible Fixed
Measures Thereof

Standards of Measurement Absolute Comparative

Relation Between Objects of A/E Coöperative Competitive

Ways to Improve Teaching
and Learning
 Implement research-based “best practices”.
 Put the examples into practice.
 Employ an assessment-informed model of teaching
focused on measurable student learning outcomes.