Assesment, Evalutation, Testing and Grading

According to what Craig (2012) argues in the discussion of assessment versus evaluation:"in terms of what, it is often said that we assess students and we evaluate instruction"(p.3). It can be said that assessment is the way in which teachers, curriculum designers and administrators can know students success on grasping the concepts that they are exposed to. To do so, teachers use tests (among other tools)in order to know to what extend students are sucessful or not. By grading, teachers provide a feedback that can be a number, a letter, etc that represents students'performance.

On the other hand, evaluation is how the success of teachers as instructors is analyzed. In this case, their ways to teach, to introduce a topic, and to explain (among others) are subject to study.