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assessment

assessment

474 2.8
A decision about how good someone's work or skills are
  • noun
  • /əˈsɛs.mənt/
translation icon : evaluación
  • Are you able to give an honest assessment of a situation?
  • formative assessment
  • risk assessment
  • assessment tool

First, try to create the most honest assessment of yourself.

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Examples

  • Does he agree with her assessment of this government's record?

  • Her assessment of the environmental impact was crucial for the approval of the new development.

  • First, try to create the most honest assessment of yourself.

  • This was my professional assessment at that time.

  • I have an assessment report due now.

  • Is that an accurate assessment of your whole situation?

  • Now, while we're waiting for the company to tell us what our next assignment is, I'd like a complete assessment of our system's status.

  • A summary of the 67 responses to the needs assessment survey is shown in Table 1.

    Academic text (2015)
  • So you got a realistic assessment of what you're facing.

  • Guys I'd like to have your honest assessment on what you've seen, what you've heard, and what we can reasonably draw from it.

Synonyms

evaluation
vsassessment
329 3.7

A careful decision about how good or valuable something is

is the same but emphasizes the act of judging itself
to review
vsassessment
  • Literature
252 2.9

To examine something carefully and give an opinion about its quality

is the act of judging broadly rather than only giving opinions
valuation
vsassessment
  • Specialized
62 5.1

An estimate of how much something is worth

covers judging quality or importance beyond just monetary worth
examination
vsassessment
  • Formal
44 2.9

Formal questioning of a person in an official or academic setting

is a general act of judging rather than a formal test situation
estimation
vsassessment
31 3.2

An opinion about someone's qualities or how much people respect them

is a formal act of judging quality rather than social regard
appraisal
vsassessment
15 4.3

A judgment of how well someone does their job or how much something is worth

focuses more on the overall judgment of importance and quality
critical analysis
vsassessment
4 5.1

A close study of a text or work of art to judge its strengths and weaknesses

is more general and applies beyond detailed text or art study
critical appraisal
vsassessment
1 6.3

A careful step-by-step check of information to decide how useful or true it is

is broader and can be less formal or methodical in approach

Compounds

1 7.4

An extra tax on private property that pays for local public work like new sidewalks

1 3.7

An official value of property or income that shows how much tax you must pay

1 4.2

A test with questions to find out how a person thinks, feels, and behaves

logistic assessment
  • Specialized
7.0

A check of the supplies and support needed for a military mission

How Thorough

audit
  • Formal
45 4.9
examination
110 2.3
appraisal
15 4.3
assessment
474 2.8
evaluation
329 3.7
to review
  • Literature
252 2.9
to check
1.0

Surface Forms

assessment singular
assessments plural

Morphology

assessment = assess (transparent) = assess + ment

Standard nominalization of the verb 'assess' with '-ment' forming 'the act of assessing', which directly matches this sense.

Etymology

Assessment comes from an old idea of officials 'sitting' together to judge things, and the same root is in assess, which began as people who would sit and decide. So an assessment is the act of judging or measuring how good or valuable something is.