Let’s Discuss Your Assessment Strategy (PArt 4: Defining Terms)

This article is Part 4 of our series on How to Create an Assessment Strategy. Click here for Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

Practitioners in scientific fields tend to agree on terminology. When a chemist talks about a molecule all chemists agree on the definition of a molecule. When a pharmacologist discusses the mechanism of action of a drug everyone in that field agrees on what the term “mechanism of action” means. In testing though there is no single agreed upon nomenclature. Probably this is because the language of testing is part of the vernacular. We have all been taking tests in one form or other since kindergarten, using whatever terminology our teachers used. What is the difference between a test and an exam? What makes a quiz a quiz and not a test? Where do evaluations fit into all this? And what’s an assessment? >> Read full article

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