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Teaching is the process of transferring knowledge, skill, right attitude, and behaviour from teachers to learners. Education is considered to be a tri-polar process. In which teacher, learner and subject matter are the three poles. Teachers are teaching subject content to the learners. This is happening in school as a continuous process. Teachers are doing this teaching activity constantly, then how do they know whether learners are understands the concepts or not? To know that teachers are required to conduct assessment for their student. A teacher can use variety of tools and techniques to assess students’ knowledge. In an assessment procedures, teacher use terminologies like test, examination, measurement, assessment and evaluation etc. These terms appears same and used interchangeably by educators however each terms convey different meaning. Examination is more formal and broader than test. In an academic yearmore number of tests can be conducted and of examination is few in number.Measurement is providing quantitative information about student performance. Assessment is recording the information about student performance. Evaluation is judging the performance of student. The present study focuses; firstly, on analysing the meaning of the test, examination, measurement, assessment and evaluation; secondly, on the relationship between the terms.

Test, Examination, Measurement, Assessment and Evaluation