Whats the difference between grading and assessment?
Grading entails evaluating an individual student’s academic performance. The emphasis is on determining whether, and to what extent, each student has grasped conceptual material, has learned to apply theory to solve problems or create something and can extend a concept or make inferences etc. Viewed this way, the responsibility is to the individual student and to a class of students as a whole.
Grading entails evaluating individual students’ academic performance. The emphasis is on the individual student, and whether he or she has grasped conceptual material. On the other hand, assessment is the systematic appraisal of learning of a class or cohort enrolled in a program of study. It entails examining learning-outcomes data and making summative evaluations about whether a program of study meets its objectives by producing the learning intended.
