Evaluation (disambiguation)

Evaluation mainly refers to the process of characterizing and appraising something of interest or of determining the value of an expression (mathematics). Other senses include:

Computer science

• determining the value of an expression, see Eval()
• Eager evaluation or strict evaluation, the model in which an expression is evaluated as soon as it gets bound to a variable
• 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
• 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

Groups or organizations

• 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
• Deadalus Research Evaluation and Development Corporation (DREADCO), a fictional company in Daedalus
• 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

Measuring things

• Competency evaluation (law) - competency evaluations for the courts
• Competency evaluation, 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
• Evaluation-net (E-net), a formalism that was derived from the Petri net formalism in mathematics
• Evaluation (workplace), used by employers to review the performance of an employee; usually administered at regular intervals.
• Formation evaluation, 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 term from the field of language testing and psychometrics

Other

• Emergy evaluation, an accounting system developed by Howard T. Odum and colleagues
• Evaluation, the process of judging something or someone based on a set of standards
• Evaluation approaches, conceptually distinct ways of thinking about, designing and conducting evaluation efforts
• 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
• Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH), a piece of legislation in the European Union on chemical safety
• Social evaluation, a shared judgement by a set (or community) of agents