Badges are NOT assessments

En el contexto del proyecto Open Badges, David Wiley insiste en la importancia de distingir claramente entre la evaluación del aprendizaje y los badges, distintivos o certificados que se conceden tras la evaluación como reconocimiento del aprendizaje.

I believe we need to be very careful in the way we talk about badges. Badges are not assessments. A badge is something you receive after you successfully complete an assessment. The actual assessment could take the form of generic multiple-choice questions, a performance assessment, a portfolio evaluation, a construct-aligned bundle of context-dependent items, or whatever. If the person successfully completes this assessment, then they receive the credential. Badges are not assessments; badges are credentials – badges are things we award to people who pass assessments [...]