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Assessment and evaluation: What do the terms really mean?
College & Research Libraries News, Vol.70(3), pp.146-149
2009
Abstract
In various settings, academic librarians are discussing assessment and eager to play a leadership role in their organizations and institutions. Much of what they present as assessment in fact appears to be evaluation. Complicating matters, many definitions of assessment actually incorporate the word evaluate.
Assessment is a type of evaluation that gathers evidence perhaps from the application of evaluation research. The purpose of assessment or evaluation is either accountability or service/program improvement. Both terms actually portray accountability and improvement differently.
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- Title
- Assessment and evaluation
- Publication Details
- College & Research Libraries News, Vol.70(3), pp.146-149
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- Association of College and Research Libraries
- Copyright
- © American Library Association, 2009
- Identifiers
- 99380459696806600
- Academic Unit
- Division of Academic Affairs; University of West Florida Libraries
- Language
- English