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