evaluation
- noun
- /ɪˌvæljuˈeɪʃən/
- After every concert, Maggie has her elementary students complete a self-evaluation of their performance.
- self-evaluation
- performance evaluation
- program evaluation
What is your kind of evaluation of Plan Colombia?
- What is your kind of evaluation of Plan Colombia?
- I'm like, OK, listen, self evaluation is different than self judgement.
- Then we had faculty evaluations, peer evaluations.
- And the main reason I call for this re evaluation is this.
- The second dimension is evaluation and deployment.
- With Roman you can get a free online evaluation and ongoing care for Ed.
- This entails choosing and applying an evaluation methodology.
- It's kind of OK at teaching them skill sets, inference, evaluation, explanation.
- Or how interesting that your boss didn't get your evaluation back yet.
- So, so our self evaluation I think does track mate value to some extent.
- The key is to do a very honest, quantitative evaluation of what worked.
- This concept does not include a moral evaluation.
Examples
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The teacher's evaluation of the students' work was fair and comprehensive.
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All five schools agreed to join the evaluation study and received $1,000 for participating.
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So the idea is that when you run the evaluation, it's very similar.
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In development, the evaluation comes at the very end of the project.
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It's a constant evaluation every three months.
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And she passed the evaluation with flying colors!
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Finally, we call for a new era of research, action, and evaluation in this field.
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The key is to do a very honest, quantitative evaluation of what worked.
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Finally, the district conducted an evaluation to ensure quality, provide feedback to stakeholders, and support sustainability.
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Peer students and the instructor completed an evaluation rubric on each of the group members.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
A decision about how good someone's work or skills are
An opinion or decision formed after careful thought
A close, careful look at something to find mistakes or problems
An estimate of how much something is worth
Finding the exact value of something by testing or measuring
A judgment of how well someone does their job or how much something is worth
A short check of a person's work or progress
A close study of a text or work of art to judge its strengths and weaknesses
Careful thought about something before making a decision
An article that says if a book, play, or film is good and explains why
A careful step-by-step check of information to decide how useful or true it is
Looking at or listening to something to judge its value
A written report giving an opinion about a book, show, or product
An official check that finds how much property or goods are worth
Thinking about facts to form an opinion or make a decision
Compounds
- Specialized
A regular check during a project that shows progress and helps people decide
- Specialized
A study carried out before a project to predict its likely effects
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Evaluation comes from the old Latin root valere, which means 'to be worth', and you can see the same idea in the everyday word value. So, an evaluation is the process of judging the 'worth' of something.