Evaluation (disambiguation) explained
Evaluation is the process of judging something or someone based on a set of standards.
Evaluation may also refer to:
Measurement or appraisal
- Education:
- Competency evaluation (law), an assessment of the ability of a defendant to understand and rationally participate in a court process
- Formation evaluation in petroleum exploration, used to determine the commercial-viability of a potential oil or gas field
- Human resources:
- Evaluation (workplace), a tool employers use to review the performance of an employee
- Performance evaluation, a method by which the job performance of an employee is evaluate
- Evaluation (basketball), a statistical formula used to rank basketball players in some European leagues
- Evaluation camp, a program in which athletes from Canadian universities are scouted by the Canadian Football League
- Monitoring and evaluation, a process that helps governments, international organizations and NGOs improve performance and achieve results
- Project management:
Computer science
- Computer process to compute the value of an expression or subroutine argument:
- Eager evaluation or strict evaluation, the model in which an expression is evaluated as soon as it gets bound to a variable
- eval, a function which evaluates a string as though it were an expression, or executes multiple lines of code
- Evaluation strategy or reduction strategy, a set of rules for defining the evaluation of expressions under β-reduction
- 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
- Evaluation function, used by game-playing programs to estimate the advantage of a position, also known as heuristic evaluation function or static evaluation function
- Appraisal of the quality of a project or product:
Groups or organizations
Other uses
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