Have you noticed that more educators are using the word 'assessments' when they just mean tests? Either they're euphemizing (like substituting 'consequences' for 'punishments') or they're inadvertently revealing their ignorance of other, better ways to assess than tests.

Alfie Kohn And I resist efforts to frame #ungrading (simply) as #alternativeAssessment because that simply renames the centrality of assessment, while ungrading (de-grading) decenters it. (There are many flavors. I’ll be talking about this in June at the #TheGradingConference .)