Last November 12, 2011 was my first session in my EDFD 304 “Advance Methods of Educational Assessment” class. It’s again another new beginning of knowledge exploration particularly in the world of Educational Management. I was so excited again sharing the different insights from my professor Dr. Olga Alonsabe and my classmates. We’ve started deliberating what is an Authentic Assessment which said to be an assessment that doesn’t focus on paper and pen test but more on setting criteria in evaluating learning or base on rubrics.
We enjoyed so much discussing things which will optimistically transpire for the whole semester in our class that at the end of the semester we will be equipped with concepts relating measurement, assessment, evaluation, and testing; we will be exposed to the world of Descriptive Statistics, Authentic Educational Assessment, and item Analysis; and we will be expected also to develop an Assessment Tool which can be hopefully helped our present educational curriculum.
As we closed our first session, we were given task to be accomplished with. We were defied to give the differences of measurement, assessment, evaluation and testing in relation to the place of assessment in our curriculum. So as for my little understanding on this issue, I can say that there are disparity among the four even for the fact that they are also related with each other.
For me, measurement means to gauge, compute, calculate, or quantify a certain magnitude, length, degree of something in terms of a selected unit or in short measurement is to get an exact dimension, size, height, dept or quantity of any element and it has an exact statistical answers. While Assessment denotes appraisal or judgment of a certain value or worth and its result focuses on the quality or eminence of the facet being assessed. Moreover, evaluation refers to an expression of value of a quantity numerically or its cost and it has criteria to be set and being followed. And lastly, testing connotes an examination of the nature or value of anything, a set of problems or questions by which a person’s knowledge , abilities, aptitudes or character are assessed, and a set of circumstances occurring naturally or deliberately contrived, in which the nature or qualities of a person or thing are revealed.
