What does assessment mean?

Definitions for assessment
əˈsɛs məntas·sess·ment

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. appraisal, assessmentnoun

    the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth

  2. assessmentnoun

    an amount determined as payable

    "the assessment for repairs outraged the club's membership"

  3. assessmentnoun

    the market value set on assets

  4. judgment, judgement, assessmentnoun

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

    "they criticized my judgment of the contestants"

Wiktionary

  1. assessmentnoun

    The act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed.

  2. assessmentnoun

    An appraisal or evaluation.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Assessmentnoun

    Etymology: from to assess.

    What greater immunity and happiness can there be to a people, than to be liable to no laws, but what they make themselves? To be subject to no contribution, assessment, or any pecuniary levy whatsoever, but what they vote, and voluntarily yield unto themselves? James Howell, Pre-eminence of Parliam.

ChatGPT

  1. assessment

    Assessment refers to the process of evaluating or analyzing a person's knowledge, skills, attitudes, or abilities in a specific subject or field. This can involve a variety of methods including tests, observations, interviews, or reviews of work. Assessments aim to measure performance, identify areas for improvement, and guide future learning or development strategies. They can be utilized in various settings such as education, healthcare, business, and more.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Assessmentnoun

    the act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club

  2. Assessmentnoun

    a valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation; such valuation and an adjudging of the proper sum to be levied on the property; as, an assessment of property or an assessment on property

  3. Assessmentnoun

    the specific sum levied or assessed

  4. Assessmentnoun

    an apportionment of a subscription for stock into successive installments; also, one of these installments (in England termed a "call")

  5. Etymology: [LL. assessamentum.]

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. assessment

    1. A continuous process that measures the overall effectiveness of employing joint force capabilities during military operations. 2. Determination of the progress toward accomplishing a task, creating an effect, or achieving an objective. 3. Analysis of the security, effectiveness, and potential of an existing or planned intelligence activity. 4. Judgment of the motives, qualifications, and characteristics of present or prospective employees or

Editors Contribution

  1. assessment

    To assess the value or quality of a goal, plan, project, task. process, procedures, structure, system or standard.

    They did complete a regular assessment of the project tasks to ensure they were efficient and suitable for purpose.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 14, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'assessment' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1545

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'assessment' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2311

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'assessment' in Nouns Frequency: #605

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of assessment in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of assessment in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of assessment in a Sentence

  1. Melita Murko:

    This study is the first one that really shows an organized picture by using the assessment instrument of the WHO. I hope that this will help us to create a strong front to move forward toward deinstitutionalization.

  2. Vassili Serebriakov:

    Yellen gave a fairly positive assessment of the economy that would be consistent with the Fed raising rates at their December meeting.

  3. National Railway Co:

    Emergency crews are conducting full site assessment and activating the emergency response plan with local officials.

  4. Mary Sano:

    I think we need to rethink our screening and assessment tools to be sure they are equally sensitive to men and women, better tests could be more sensitive memory tests or other cognitive tests that are more difficult.

  5. Jack Keane:

    He terminated us because we were appointed by President Trump, there was no assessment of who we are and what our contributions have been and what our background is. … I think it's petty, very partisan and simply wrong.

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