Evaluation (disambiguation)

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Evaluation is the process of judging something or someone based on a set of standards.

Evaluation may also refer to:

Measurement or appraisal

Evaluation (workplace), a tool employers use to review the performance of an employee
Competency evaluation (law), an assessment of the ability of a defendant to understand and rationally participate in a court process
Competency evaluation (language), a means for teachers to determine the ability of their students
Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL), a numerical grade assigned following the completion of a Common Criteria security evaluation
Formation evaluation in petroleum exploration, used to determine the commercial-viability of a potential oil or gas field
Narrative evaluation, a form of performance measurement and feedback which can be used instead of grading
Performance evaluation, a method by which the job performance of an employee is evaluate

Evaluation function, also known as heuristic evaluation function or static evaluation function, used by game-playing programs to estimate the advantage of a position
Evaluation strategy or reduction strategy, a set of rules for defining the evaluation of expressions under β-reduction
Eager evaluation or strict evaluation, the model in which an expression is evaluated as soon as it gets bound to a variable
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT), a network analysis technique used in project management
Heuristic evaluation, a usability testing method to identify usability problems in a user interface (UI) design
Lazy evaluation, a technique of delaying computation of expressions until the results of the computation are needed
Minimal evaluation or short circuit evaluation, an evaluation strategy in which an expression is only evaluated until the point where its final value is known
Partial evaluation, a technique for program optimization by specialization
Remote evaluation, the transmission of executable software programs from a client computer to a server computer for execution
Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), a non-profit organization that aims to produce fair, impartial and meaningful benchmarks for computers
eval, a function which evaluates a string as though it were an expression, or executes multiple lines of code

337th Test and Evaluation Squadron, the USAF's only B-1 operational test unit
Australian Drug Evaluation Committee or ADEC, is a committee that provides independent scientific advice to the Australian Government regarding therapeutic drugs
Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA), a former part of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) up until 2001
International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), an association of national research institutions and government research agencies related to education
Operations Evaluation Department (OED), an independent unit within the World Bank

Evaluation (basketball), a statistical formula used to rank basketball players in some European leagues
Evaluation (journal), a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers in the field of evaluation
Emergy evaluation, an accounting system developed by Howard T. Odum and colleagues
Evaluation approaches, conceptually distinct ways of thinking about, designing and conducting evaluation efforts
Evaluation camp, a program in which athletes from Canadian universities are scouted by the Canadian Football League
Immanent evaluation, a concept used by Gilles Deleuze in Nietzsche and Philosophy (1962)
Program evaluation, a set of philosophies and techniques to determine if a program 'works'
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT), a model for project management invented by US Department of Defense's US Navy Special Projects Office
Realist Evaluation, a type of theory-driven evaluation method used in evaluating social programmes
Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH), a piece of legislation in the European Union on chemical safety