evaluation - Definition | Dictionary definition of evaluation

Definition of evaluation

act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of

Types:: grading, marking, scoring
evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score

Type of:: assessment, judgement, judgment
the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event

an appraisal of the value of something

Types:: show 11 types...; hide 11 types...; 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; price gouging
pricing above the market price when no alternative retailer is available; 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); grade point
a numerical value assigned to a letter grade received in a course taken at a college or university multiplied by the number of credit hours awarded for the course; centile, percentile
(statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total; decile
(statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores; quartile
(statistics) any of three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts each containing one quarter of the scores; bond rating
an evaluation by a rating company of the probability that a particular bond issue will default

Type of:: appraisal, assessment
the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth