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Assessment is a word you hear a lot around schools –– it means figuring out what someone knows or has learned. A test can be an assessment tool, or a term paper, or a project.

More than just students are given assessments. You might bring your dad's plastic gnome collection to an expert for an assessment and find out it's worth all of $15.35. You might make a quick assessment of a situation –– say it's you, two bullies, your lunch money and a long hallway –– and decide to run.

DEFINITIONS OF: assessment

n the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event

Synonyms:: judgement, judgment

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judgment involved in the determination of rights and the assignment of rewards and punishments; adjudication
the final judgment in a legal proceeding; the act of pronouncing judgment based on the evidence presented; disapproval
the act of disapproving or condemning; evaluation, rating
act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of; estimate, estimation
a judgment of the qualities of something or somebody; logistic assessment
a judgment of the logistic support required for some particular military operation; value judgement, value judgment
an assessment that reveals more about the values of the person making the assessment than about the reality of what is assessed; administration, judicature
the act of meting out justice according to the law; grading, marking, scoring
evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score; appraisal
an expert estimation of the quality, quantity, and other characteristics of someone or something; moralism
judgments about another person's morality; capitalisation, capitalization
an estimation of the value of a business; disparagement, dispraise
the act of speaking contemptuously of; condemnation
(law) the act of condemning (as land forfeited for public use) or judging to be unfit for use (as a food product or an unsafe building); branding, stigmatisation, stigmatization
the act of stigmatizing

Type of:: act, deed, human action, human activity
something that people do or cause to happen

n the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth

Synonyms:: appraisal

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an appraisal based on careful analytical evaluation; evaluation, rating, valuation
an appraisal of the value of something; assay, check
an appraisal of the state of affairs; acid test
a rigorous or crucial appraisal; reappraisal, reassessment, revaluation, review
a new appraisal or evaluation; underevaluation
an appraisal that underestimates the value of something; criticism, critique
a serious examination and judgment of something; overvaluation
too high a value or price assigned to something; undervaluation
too low a value or price assigned to something; pricing
the evaluation of something in terms of its price; reevaluation
the evaluation of something a second time (or more); grade, mark, score
a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance); bond rating
an evaluation by a rating company of the probability that a particular bond issue will default; countercheck, double check
something that checks the correctness of a previous check; Apgar score
an assessment of the physical condition of a newborn infant; involves heart rate and muscle tone and respiratory effort and color and reflex responsiveness; paternity test
a test based on blood groups to determine whether a particular man could be the biological father of a particular child; negative results prove he was not the father but positive results show only that he could be; stress test
a test measuring how a system functions when subjected to controlled amounts of stress; stock-taking, stocktaking
reappraisal of a situation or position or outlook

Type of:: categorisation, categorization, classification, sorting
the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories

n the market value set on assets

Types:: tax assessment
the value set on taxable property

Type of:: cost, monetary value, price
the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)

n an amount determined as payable

“the assessment for repairs outraged the club's membership”

Type of:: charge
financial liabilities (such as a tax)

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