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Educational Measurement and Evaluation

Notes change of behaviour is effected in them. This process of evaluation may be clarified with the help of
the following sketch :

Teaching Objectives

Evaluation

Teaching-Learning Evaluation
activities Techniques

With reference to evaluation of educational achievements, the steps of evaluation may be written
and understood as follows :
(1) Clarification of teaching objectives.
(2) Selection of suitable performance test or practical work.
(3) Administration of performance test or practical work.
(4) Marking and recording of scores on the answer-sheet or practical work.
(5) Analysis of measurement results.
(6) Suggestions on the basis of analysis of measurement results (evaluation).
(7) Evaluation of the effect of the suggestions.
(8) Evaluation is used to give educational and vocational guidance to students.
(9) Evaluation is used to ascertain the amount of learning of students.
(10) Evaluation helps to know about the weaknesses and strengths of students.
(11) Evaluation is used to ascertain the effectiveness of instruction and to plan activities accordingly.
(12) A purpose of evaluation is to ascertain how different individual and social needs of students
can be met.
(13) The chief purpose of evaluation is to classify students.
(14) By evaluation, the skill and success of teachers are measured.
(15) A purpose of evaluation is to enable students to understand their problems and progress.
(16) Suitable amendments can be effected to the curriculum by evaluation.
(17) Evaluation tests suitability of methods of teaching.

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2.9 Difference between Measurement and Evaluation
Generally the term ‘measurement’ is confused with ‘Evaluation’, while they are quite apart from
each other. Measurement is a quantitative form of an object, while evaluation presents its qualitative
together with its measurement. In brief, measurement is numerical and evaluation quantitative.
Measurement tells us how much of an object, while evaluation tells us how good it is. Besides,
evaluation pays attention to the fact of realization of objectives, while by measurement is meant
only the number of specific objectives that have been realized. Measurement is incomplete without
evaluation.
Distinguishing between measurement and evaluation, Wrightstone has written :

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