Assessment
* address literacies.
* aid management.
* are charge
  - formal means of determining the skills and learning potential of students
  - methods of evaluation to determine achievement of competencies
  - monetary values
  - summarized in tables
  - the feedback that every system needs in order to be productive and grow
  - used by organizations
  - valuations made by government agencies to value local property
* attract attention.
* base on experience.
* demonstrate potential.
* highlight importance.
* include analyses
  - consideration
  - details
  - measurements
  - semen analyses
* indicate calculations
  - knowledge
  - results
* involve assessments
  - determination
  - examinations
* plays an important part in the teaching-learning process at all levels of education.
* provide descriptions
  - information
  - valuable information
* refers to our evaluation of departmental outcomes
  - tests given to large groups of students
* refers to the determination of tax liability
  - set of practices used to measure outcomes
* require expertise
  - further investigations
  - intensive monitors
  - invasive procedures
  - systematic monitors
* reveal patterns
* show differences
  - extinction
* take places.

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Biological assessment
* are useful in evaluating the integrity of the estuarine system.
* provide integrated evaluations of water quality.

Functional assessment
* are evaluations used to predict either physical or cognitive ability.
* represents a best practices approach to the assessment of problem behavior.
* rigorous, empirically-based method of evaluation.

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Rating
* are a measure of financial strength and ability to pay claims
  - numerical means of comparing the relative strengths of chessplayers
  - standing
* is an assessment
* play an important role in today's capital markets.
* refer to the status of the countries at the end of the calendar year
  - type of plane they are certified to fly
+ Entertainment Software Rating Board: Entertainment :: Software
  * Rating is voluntary. Game publishers do not have to submit their games for ratings. Some retailers make people show identification to prove their age if they want to buy M-rated games. Many retailers will not buy and sell AO games so it is very hard for gamers to find AO-rated games.

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Arbitrary mark
* are marks that are applied in an unfamiliar way.
* use words, symbols, pictures etc.

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Cairn
* Many Cairns like to swim.
* also assist in navigation
  - have large teeth for their size, large feet and strong nails
* are also rather well known for their digging ability
  - cities
  - historical sites
  - landmark
  - markers
  - memorials
  - piles of stones marking the summit of a hill or mountain
  - short, shaggy dogs, fairly long for their height, with large heads and pricked up ears
  - terriers
  - very territorial
* can be easy to housetrain, mainly due to their desire to please their people
  - work above treeline
* have large teeth, strong legs and feet for digging, and a hard, weather-resistant coat.
* tend to be allergic to fleas.

Crop mark
* are useful when printing on plain paper and cutting the designs manually.
* show where a page, photo or transparency is to be cut.

Diacritic
* are character modifiers, also referred to as combining characters
  - rare in English, but common in many other languages
* forum for exchange among literary theorists, literary critics, and philosophers.
  * Most diacritics concern pronunciation because alphabets do not describe the sounds of words exactly. Diacritics are rare in English, but common in many other languages.

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Accent mark
* can change the meaning of a word drastically.
* do make a difference in both pronunciation and meaning.
* indicate the syllable bearing principal stress and the quality of the accented vowel.