Are you assessing or evaluating?
What is assessing and what is evaluating? To start with this blog, we all should be clear i n what is assessing, what is evaluation, and the differences between them. According to the Online Assessment Tool website, assessment is " the systematic process of documenting and using empirical data to measure knowledge, skills, attitudes, and beliefs." and evaluation " focuses on grades and might reflect classroom components other than course content and mastery level." Just by reading the definitions, you can spot the general differences between each other, but are there any other differences? and what do they have in common? There are many differences that we can see between assessment and evaluation; one of them is that the assessment is a process-oriented action, and the evaluation is a product-oriented action which means we take into account the result of what we were trying to have the students do or learn. They both require a time of observation in which we n