Educational evaluation is a process of making value judgments on educational activities, educational processes and educational results by using feasible scientific means through systematic collection, analysis and arrangement, according to certain educational values or educational goals, thus providing a basis for improving educational quality and educational decision-making.
Functions of educational measurement:
1. Educational measurement is a good tool to improve teaching.
2. Educational measurement is an important means of teaching management.
3. Educational measurement is an important method of educational research.
Elements of educational measurement:
1, unit
2. Frame of reference
3. Scale
Educational evaluation function
Guiding function
Educational evaluation provides a standard to measure the quality of educational process or result, which naturally plays a guiding role in the whole educational and teaching activities. Like a baton, it dominates or guides all aspects of education and teaching workers, including the formulation of educational objectives, the choice of educational content and methods, and the development of educational process.
The connection and difference between educational measurement and educational evaluation
There are differences and connections between educational measurement and educational evaluation.
Difference: Educational measurement is a process of measuring and describing the educational effect or students' development in all aspects, aiming at obtaining convincing quantitative facts, and it is a factual judgment characterized by quantification. Educational evaluation is to obtain enough information and facts, and to systematically investigate educational things or phenomena according to certain standards.
The fundamental feature of educational evaluation is to make value judgment, and the end of educational measurement does not necessarily require value judgment.
Connection: educational measurement can provide basic quantitative facts of value judgment for educational evaluation, and educational measurement is the basis of educational evaluation; Educational evaluation is the continuation of educational measurement process, the interpretation and application of educational measurement results, and it develops in the direction of value judgment and release function.