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Evaluation (disambiguation)

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

Evaluation may also refer to:

Measurement or appraisal

  • 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
  • Program evaluation, an approach in social policy to determine if a program is effective.
  • 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:
  • Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) of an IT product or system, a numerical grade assigned following the completion of a Common Criteria security evaluation
  • Heuristic evaluation, a usability testing method to identify usability problems in a user interface (UI) design
  • Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), a non-profit organization that aims to produce fair, impartial and meaningful benchmarks for computers

Groups or organizations

Other uses

See also