From the perspective of people's evaluation of education, we can regard education evaluation as a process of making value judgments on educational activities, educational processes and educational results by using feasible scientific means according to certain educational values or educational goals, so as to continuously improve ourselves and provide basis for educational decision-making. This is a general definition, which is suitable for explaining the value of various educational phenomena in the field of general education. Its characteristics are: educational evaluation is a process with certain procedures and systematic activities; Educational evaluation is based on certain educational goals or values; The core of educational evaluation is the value judgment of the function, state and effect of the evaluation object; Educational evaluation is based on scientific evaluation methods and techniques; The ultimate goal of educational evaluation is to continuously improve the behavior of the evaluation object, improve the quality of education and serve the educational decision-making.
According to this definition, the general steps of education evaluation are: 1. Determine the analysis and evaluation objectives, define the evaluation scheme, and make good preparations for evaluation; 2. Select the evaluation start time, collect and sort out the evaluation object information; 3. Analyze the evaluation information to form an evaluation conclusion; 4. According to the evaluation results, put forward to improve the behavior of the evaluation object and achieve the expected goal.
When studying evaluation, we should pay attention to the differences between evaluation, evaluation and measurement. Evaluation, evaluation and measurement are all tests. They often (but not always) use tests, but none of them are synonyms for public tests, and the types of tests required by these three processes may be different.
Measurement means that "assigning a number to …" is suitable for most educational situations, and many intellectual abilities or other educational quantities can only be measured indirectly. This kind of test is usually used to measure some quantities, such as level, ability to apply a principle in different situations, and how much material has been learned or forgotten. Measurement is rarely measured for measurement's sake. It can be included in an evaluation or assessment, but it is more suitable as a basic research step.
The term evaluation should be targeted at specific people as much as possible. Its activities mainly include: grading (formal and informal), inspection, appraisal and so on. We can evaluate the academic performance of specific subjects, the ability of candidates to engage in specific occupations, the teaching ability of teachers and so on.
The term "educational evaluation" is usually used for abstract entities, such as planned courses and various groups of organizational variables. This usage means to estimate the importance or value of something, which usually involves comparison with other plans, courses or organizational models. Just as evaluation can be described as the routine activity of most educators, evaluation is the activity of people mainly engaged in research and development.