Assessment and Evaluation 评估和评价

Assessment and Evaluation

评估和评价

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　　By Gena Bennett

　　22 December 2023

　　Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher, we answer a question about the words "assessment" and "evaluation."

　　Question

　　What is difference between Assessment and evaluation?

　　Noor

　　Answer

　　Thank you for writing, Noor. This is a good question.

　　Many people use the terms assessment and evaluation interchangeably. That means they see little or no difference between them in most cases. The terms are related. They both involve performance and education, but they are not the same thing. It is a mistake to use them interchangeably.

　　Assessment focuses on student learning, documenting what students know and what they can do. Assessment has many purposes. They include finding out a student's overall ability, measuring to what degree a student has gained control of an identified set of criteria, and providing students with information about their strengths and weaknesses. Assessment is a continual process. Its goal is to help students improve.

　　Here are some sentences using assessment.

　　Teachers should use classroom assessments to inform instruction.

　　The students completed a weekly assessment.

　　The school uses a variety of assessment tools.

　　Evaluation often focuses on the performance of an organization. Evaluation involves using criteria and evidence to find out if an organization is meeting its goals. Evaluation only happens at set times, and its goal is to judge the quality of an organization. Assessment can be a part of the evaluation process. That is because assessment results are often used to make judgements.

　　Here are some sentences using evaluation.

　　The class was canceled due to results from the curriculum evaluation.

　　The school district completed its special education program evaluation last month.

　　The governor focused on the lack of school counseling evaluations.

　　Although assessment and evaluation are both used in education and relate to measuring performance, they have different focuses, purposes, timing, and outcomes. The terms are also used a lot in other fields such as finance, medicine and engineering.

　　Please let us know if this explanation has helped you, Noor.

　　Do you have a question about American English? Send us an email at learningenglish@voanews.com.

　　And that's Ask a Teacher.

　　I'm Gena Bennett.

　　Gena Bennett wrote this lesson for VOA Learning English.

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　　作者：Gena Bennett

　　2023年12月22日

　　你好！这周的“向老师提问”环节，我们将回答关于"assessment"和"evaluation"这两个词的问题。

　　问题

　　"Assessment"和"evaluation"之间有什么区别？

　　Noor

　　回答

　　感谢你的提问，Noor。这是一个很好的问题。

　　许多人将assessment和evaluation这两个词交替使用。这意味着他们在大多数情况下认为这两者之间的区别很小或者没有区别。这两个词是有关联的。它们都涉及到表现和教育，但它们并不是同一回事。将它们交替使用是错误的。

　　Assessment关注的是学生的学习，记录学生知道什么和他们能做什么。Assessment有很多目的。它们包括找出学生的整体能力，衡量学生掌握一组确定的标准的程度，以及向学生提供他们的优点和缺点的信息。Assessment是一个持续的过程。它的目标是帮助学生提高。

　　以下是一些使用assessment的句子。

　　教师应该使用课堂评估来指导教学。

　　学生们完成了一次每周的评估。

　　学校使用各种评估工具。

　　评价通常关注的是一个组织的表现。评价涉及使用标准和证据来查明一个组织是否达到了其目标。评价只在设定的时间进行，其目标是判断一个组织的质量。评估可以是评价过程的一部分。这是因为评估结果通常被用来做出判断。

　　以下是一些使用evaluation的句子。

　　由于课程评价的结果，课程被取消了。

　　学区上个月完成了其特殊教育项目的评价。

　　州长关注的是学校咨询评估的缺乏。

　　虽然评估和评价都在教育中使用，并且都与衡量表现有关，但它们的关注点、目的、时间和结果都有所不同。这些术语也在金融、医疗和工程等其他领域被广泛使用。

　　请告诉我们这个解释是否对你有所帮助，Noor。

　　你对美式英语有什么问题吗？请给我们发邮件至learningenglish@voanews.com。

　　以上就是“向老师提问”环节。

　　我是Gena Bennett。

　　这节课是Gena Bennett为VOA学习英语编写的。

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　　本故事中的词汇

　　focus on–v. 关注

　　degree –n. 程度，可以以某种方式衡量并与其他级别进行比较

　　criteria—n. 必须满足的条件

　　outcome–n. 最终产品或最终结果