Chapter 1

Chapter 1

The purpose of the present chapter is to make reference about the differences between measurements, assessment, evaluation, and testing is fundamental to the knowledge base of professional teachers and effective teaching. Where Burhan (2009), defines evaluation as the process of obtaining information the process is made up five stages, namely, preparing, collecting the data, making judgments, making decision, and reporting. When he talks about Assessment, testing is the narrowest in scope. It is one of the techniques for collecting the data or scores. Additionally, Kizlik (2010) say: Assessment is a process by which information is obtained relative to some known objective or goal. In other words, all tests are assessments; generally, any evaluation process requires information about the situation in question. A situation is an umbrella term that takes into account such ideas as objectives, goals, standards, procedures, and so on.