ex-post evaluation
- noun
- /ɛks poʊst ɪˌvæljuˈeɪʃən/
- Specialized
:
evaluación ex post
- The team conducted an ex-post evaluation to analyze the project's success after it was completed.
Examples
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An ex-post evaluation revealed that the initiative had a greater impact than originally expected.
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Before planning the next initiative, they completed an ex-post evaluation to measure the effectiveness of the previous project.
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However, it's one thing to use vintage data to figure out what the central bank's decision was ex-ante (which is incredibly tricky) and another to try to perform an ex-post evaluation of what the central bank was doing, assuming it had the data we have.
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Synonyms
A review after a project to see what worked and what to improve
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Surface Forms
Morphology
ex-post + evaluation
The meaning 'assessment after completion' is directly derivable from combining 'ex-post' (after the event) with 'evaluation' (assessment). Although 'ex-post' is a technical, Latin-derived term, its constituent sense of 'after' is transparent and similar formations exist cross-linguistically, so a learner who knows the parts can infer the overall meaning.
Etymology
Ex-post evaluation comes from the simple idea of checking something only 'after' it is finished: ex-post means 'after' and evaluation means a careful 'review'. So, an ex-post evaluation is a review done after a project ends to see what worked and what did not.