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Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher, we answer a question about the words “assessment” and “evaluation.”
你好啊！本周《名师答疑》，我们回答assessment和evaluation之间有什么区别。
What is difference between Assessment and evaluation?
assessment和evaluation有什么区别？
Noor.
努尔
Thank you for writing, Noor.
谢谢你的来信，努尔。
This is a good question.
这是一个好问题。
Many people use the terms assessment and evaluation interchangeably.
对许多人来说，这两个单词是可以互换的。
That means they see little or no difference between them in most cases.
也就是说，在大多数情况下，这两个单词几乎没有区别。
The terms are related.
它们的语义是相关的。
They both involve performance and education, but they are not the same thing.
都与表现和教育有关，但这两个单词不是一回事。
It is a mistake to use them interchangeably.
把它们互换着使用是错误的。
Assessment focuses on student learning, documenting what students know and what they can do.
assessment侧重学生的学习，记录学生知道什么、会做什么。
Assessment has many purposes.
这种评估有很多目的。
They include finding out a student’s overall ability, measuring to what degree a student has gained control of an identified set of criteria, and providing students with information about their strengths and weaknesses.
包括确定学生的整体能力，衡量学生在多大程度上掌握了一套确定标准所规定的内容，并让学生知道他们有哪些优点和不足。
Assessment is a continual process.
assessment是一个持续的过程。
Its goal is to help students improve.
目标是帮助学生不断提高。
Here are some sentences using assessment.
下面是一些使用assessment的句子。
Teachers should use classroom assessments to inform instruction.
教师应该用课堂评估办法来为教学提供信息。
The students completed a weekly assessment.
学生们完成了每周的评估。
The school uses a variety of assessment tools.
学校使用了多种评估工具。
Evaluation often focuses on the performance of an organization.
evaluation通常侧重一个组织的绩效。
Evaluation involves using criteria and evidence to find out if an organization is meeting its goals.
evaluation是根据标准或寻找证据，来确定组织是否完成了目标。
Evaluation only happens at set times, and its goal is to judge the quality of an organization.
evaluation只在固定的时间进行，目的是判断一个组织的质量。
Assessment can be a part of the evaluation process.
assessment可以是evaluation过程中的一部分。
That is because assessment results are often used to make judgements.
这是因为人们经常依据评估结果来做出判断。
Here are some sentences using evaluation.
下面是一些使用evaluation的句子。
The class was canceled due to results from the curriculum evaluation.
由于课程评价的结果不佳，这一课程被取消了。
The school district completed its special education program evaluation last month.
该学区上个月完成了特殊教育项目的评价活动。
The governor focused on the lack of school counseling evaluations.
州长主要关注了对学校辅导缺乏评价的问题。
Although assessment and evaluation are both used in education and relate to measuring performance, they have different focuses, purposes, timing, and outcomes.
虽然评估和评价都用于教育领域，并且都与衡量表现有关，但它们有不同的侧重点、目的、时间安排，会带来不同的结果。
The terms are also used a lot in other fields such as finance, medicine and engineering.
这两个词在金融、医学和工程等其他领域也广泛使用。
Please let us know if this explanation has helped you, Noor.
请让我们知道这些解释是否对你有帮助，努尔。
And that’s Ask a Teacher.
以上就是本期《名师答疑》。
I’m Gena Bennett.
我是吉娜·班尼特。
