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== Definition ==
 
Assessment is a kind of [[evaluation]].
 
Note: This article will deal with assessment of student performance, i.e. student evaluation - not [[course evaluation]] nor teacher evaluation.
 
 
== Assessment in the general context of evaluation ==
 
Here is a longer quote from Michael Scriven (1999):
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The discipline of evaluation is devoted to the systematic determination of merit, worth, or significance. It is divided into fields according to the type of entity evaluated--for example, program evaluation, or personnel evaluation--and there are more than twenty of these recognized fields of evaluation. Some specific aspects of evaluation methodology have been developed to solve problems of evaluation in only one or a few of these fields (e.g., bias control in panel selection, systematic side-effect identification in program evaluation, road-testing techniques in product evaluation). However, the underlying logic of the process of evaluation--for example, the difference between merit and worth, or between grading and ranking--and a substantial portion of its general methodology (e.g., techniques of measurement, causality determination, applying the requirement of informed consent) are shared across all or many of these fields
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== Links ==
 
* [http://pareonline.net/Home.htm Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation], A peer-reviewed electronic journal.  ISSN 1531-7714.
 
* [http://www.bc.edu/research/intasc/jtla.html The Journal of Technology, Learning and Assessment (JTLA)] is a peer-reviewed, scholarly on-line journal.
 
 
== References ==
 
* Scriven, Michael (1999). The nature of evaluation part i: relation to psychology. Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 6(11). Retrieved March 7, 2006 from [http://PAREonline.net/getvn.asp?v=6&n=11]

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