# 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

* Education:
** Educational assessment
** Competency evaluation (language), a means for teachers to determine the ability of their students
** Narrative evaluation, a form of performance measurement and feedback which can be used instead of grading
* 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:
** Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT), a network analysis technique used in project management
** Program evaluation, a set of project management 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

## 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

* 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
* 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

## Other uses

* Evaluation (journal), a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers in the field of evaluation
* Emergy evaluation, an accounting system in ecological economics, developed by Howard T. Odum and colleagues
* Immanent evaluation, a concept used by Gilles Deleuze in Nietzsche and Philosophy (1962)
* Realist Evaluation, a type of theory-driven evaluation method used in evaluating social programmes
* Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH), a legislation on chemical safety in the European Union
* Function evaluation, in mathematics