What is the difference between testing and evaluation in education?

Answer 1

Testing.

Evaluation.

Testing is also called assessment and involves an interaction with the student to reveal the knowledge that the child has retained from the class lessons. Testing is usually performed in a classroom environment, with every student participating, but are also performed on individual students in an isolated setting. Tests are written, oral, open book or strictly from memory.

Teachers and others perform evaluations in the education system, often with the child unaware that the evaluation is taking place. Evaluations consist of observations of the child's classroom and learning behaviors in an effort to gauge how information is retained

Answer 2

Before you can test something it must be studied and understood or "assessed" so that one might know how it can then be tested in an appropriate way so that the results can hold real value.