assessmentas‧sess‧ment /əˈsesmənt/ ●●○ AWL noun [countable, uncountable] 
What’s Michael’s assessment of the situation? a reading assessment test2a calculation about the cost or value of something: a tax assessment → continuous assessment at continuous(3)COLLOCATIONSverbsmake an assessment· I had to make a quick assessment of the situation and act accordingly.do/carry out an assessment· A teacher does a yearly assessment of each child’s progress.adjectivesa general/overall/broad assessment (=that covers the main features or parts of something, not the details)· The doctor must carry out a general assessment of the patient’s health.a detailed assessment· We need a detailed assessment of what this will cost.a comprehensive assessment (=that includes all the necessary facts or details)· Our clients receive a comprehensive assessment of their financial affairs.an objective assessment (=that is based on facts, not on feelings or beliefs)· The test results will provide an objective assessment of how much you have improved.somebody’s personal assessment· What’s your personal assessment of the risks?assessment + NOUNthe assessment procedure/process· Parents need to feel part of the assessment procedure.assessment methods/techniques· We recommend using a variety of assessment methods.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Assessment is by means of a written exam at the end of the course.
- Most schools nowadays prefer to use continuous assessment, because it gives a fairer picture of how the student has done during the whole year.
- Another area of concern was the additional assessment.
- Ask each for an assessment of your insurance needs and a plan to cover those needs.
- During the assessment Ann was interviewed.
- It is a consideration which I should have applied myself to the assessment of general damages to favour this plaintiff.
- Its advantage is that it allows a far deeper and richer assessment to be made than the pen and paper exercise.
- The Commissioner of Inland Revenue made and confirmed assessments on the taxpayer for those years in respect of the profits from sub-licensing the films.
- Yet there are arguable benefits from practising selective assessment.
Longman Language Activatora test of your knowledge or skill
a set of spoken or written questions or practical activities, which are intended to find out how much someone knows about a subject or skill: · Several students were caught cheating on the test.· The committee is calling for national tests for American schoolchildren.spelling/reading/biology etc test: · I have a chemistry test tomorrow.driving/driver's test: · Did Lauren pass her driving test?test on: · Listen carefully, because there will be a test on this next week.
also examination formal an important test that you do at the end of a course of study or at the end of the school year: · Students are not allowed to talk during the examination.· He's upstairs, revising for an exam. in an exam British /on an exam American: · How did you do in your exams?entrance exam (=an exam you must pass to enter a school or university): · In Japan, entrance exams are very important, and many children go to extra classes to prepare for them.history/French/biology etc exam: · We have a biology exam tomorrow, and I haven't done any work for it yet.final/mid-term exam American (=exams taken at the end or the middle of a particular class): · Final exams will be just before Christmas.
American a quick test that a teacher gives to a class, usually to check that students are learning the things they should be learning: · We have a history quiz every Monday.pop quiz (=a quiz that is not expected by the students): · He likes giving pop quizzes, to see if the kids are remembering anything.
also oral British an exam in which you answer questions by speaking, instead of writing, for example to test how good you are at speaking a foreign language: · You can either take an oral exam or do a 25 page essay.· Nicky got an A in her Spanish oral.
British an exam that tests your ability to do or make things, rather than your ability to write about them, for example in subjects such as chemistry or cooking: · We've got our chemistry practical tomorrow morning.
British the last exams that you take at the end of a British university course: · During my finals I was revising till 3 o'clock in the morning most days.
American the test you take at the end of a particular class, or the test you take in the middle of that class: · This class will require two papers, a midterm, and a final.
especially British a method used to find out how good a student is at a particular subject, for example by giving them written work, tests, or exams: · Assessment is by means of a written exam at the end of the course.continuous assessment (=assessment throughout a student's course of study, instead of only at the end): · Most schools nowadays prefer to use continuous assessment, because it gives a fairer picture of how the student has done during the whole year.
the system of using exams and tests to find out how good someone is at a particular subject: · The government plans to introduce compulsory testing in junior schools from the age of 7.· I believe that some sort of testing is always necessary in order to motivate students.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs It’s hard to give an objective opinion about your own children.
· I had to make a quick assessment of the situation and act accordingly.
· A teacher does a yearly assessment of each child’s progress.
adjectives (=that covers the main features or parts of something, not the details)· The doctor must carry out a general assessment of the patient’s health.
· We need a detailed assessment of what this will cost.
(=that includes all the necessary facts or details)· Our clients receive a comprehensive assessment of their financial affairs.
(=that is based on facts, not on feelings or beliefs)· The test results will provide an objective assessment of how much you have improved.
· What’s your personal assessment of the risks?
assessment + NOUN· Parents need to feel part of the assessment procedure.
· We recommend using a variety of assessment methods.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· The company is carrying out an assessment of staff training needs.
· The company is carrying out an assessment of staff training needs.
· The report includes a comprehensive study of the company’s training needs.
It’s hard to give an objective opinion about your own children. (=a calculation of how much risk is involved in something)· Engineering risk assessment is based on objective scientific criteria.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Well, she shouldn't be surprised, because it was quite an accurate assessment.· A more accurate assessment can be gained by calculating your body mass index or your percentage of body fat.· Assessment of the problem Effective intervention and treatment is based on an accurate assessment of the presenting problem.· The more feedback they can obtain from varied sources, the more accurate their assessment will be.· There are still no accurate assessments of damage available.· Yet this is hardly an accurate assessment.· But the committed membership are not those best able to give an accurate assessment.· It is infinitely more difficult to make an accurate assessment of the immediate past and of the present.
· The additional assessment is a sensible and welcome attempt to differentiate students' performance by assessing higher-order skills.· Each handbook also includes a number of additional assessments.· We have found it particularly important to develop candidate materials to explain the additional assessment in language suitable for our trainees.· The timetabling implications of the additional assessment, and of cross-module assessments generally were discussed.· The seminar also examined ways of developing centre-designed additional assessments.· For my additional assessment I had to plan a facility for a chosen client group.· Another area of concern was the additional assessment.· The additional assessment is clearly a lot of work for students.
· These will form the basis of a comprehensive family assessment procedure for use in research and practice.· Your starting point will be a comprehensive assessment of the area's technical training needs.· Hughes looks at comprehensive assessment of elderly people and their carers.· Referrals Offering the right kind of help where it is needed requires a comprehensive assessment scheme.· Only then will it be possible to reach a comprehensive assessment of Nizan's life and work.· Carry out those activities involved when conducting the comprehensive assessment of a person's nursing requirements.· The planning of each patient's care is dependent upon a comprehensive and accurate assessment.
· B.Eds were about equally divided between continuous assessment and examinations, with some project work.· Student performance will be judged on the basis of degree examination results, thesis and continuous assessment, following current University regulations.· Against this, they will be making continuous assessments of the scale of current bank lending.· On none of these courses was there any examination: continuous assessment was preferred.· Many of our courses include a project in the continuous assessment element.· The intrinsic discipline of the subject is conveyed through the course-work and teaching approach, while being monitored through continuous assessment.· People only accumulate competencies by continuous assessment of skills they do in their day to day job.· Student progress is monitored by means of continuous assessment on a range of practical exercises.
· I want to consider whether the way in which environmental impact assessments are drawn up at the moment is satisfactory.· Before the decommissioning and construction of a maintenance facility can occur, however, the Navy must complete an environmental assessment report.· The hon. Gentleman also mentioned the environmental impact assessment.· We produced a whole environmental assessment, not just what I think, but what several other coral researchers thought.· They are supported by a very detailed environmental assessment.· People need to be satisfied that the environmental assessments for King's Cross and the high-speed link are accurate.· This paves the way for the start of environmental assessment, but construction is not envisaged for some years.
· The need for formal assessment has already been conceded by teachers.· But when parenting is shared the lines of responsibility are blurred and formal assessments can lead to resentment.· In John's case the stated reason for referral for formal assessment was his behaviour in school.· Design - Comparison of team diagnosis with independent formal assessment and consensus diagnosis by research psychiatrists.
· Those enrolled for complete areas of study will be required to undertake the full assessment schedule for those areas of study.· Primary encopresis A full assessment of the reasons why the child has never achieved continence is required.· Road building proposals for sensitive areas such as Oxleas Wood and Twyford Down must be subject to full environmental assessment.· These figures on their own do not really provide a full assessment of the effectiveness of planning.· This led to sharp antagonism towards the full launch of assessment at 7 in 1991.· It is too early to make a full assessment of the impact of such privatization on industrial efficiency.· After a full assessment, priorities of care can be determined from both the nurse's and the patient's perspective.· Children need full assessment and follow up care to aid recovery.
· If he was capable of such mercurial mood shifts, maybe my initial assessment of his innocence had been way off-beam.· They would carry out an initial assessment, based on an evaluation of your lifestyle, age, level of anxiety and so on.· The data presented were drawn from detailed clinical interview of new patients at the point of initial assessment.· Increasingly the role of initial assessment will take on a new importance and will focus on centres' guidance structures and procedures.· Recognise the significance of observations made of a patient and use these to develop an initial nursing assessment.· During the initial assessment interview clients were rated by the interviewer on a number of four-point scales.· Subsequent treatment After the initial period of assessment and support it should be possible to formulate a treatment plan.· Judgement is particularly important in the initial assessment of risks and deciding on their tolerability.
· The resultant local variation in working arrangements has greatly complicated national assessment.· And the more vocational classes students take, the worse they perform on national assessments of achievement.· The national assessment is not competitive; each school is assessed according to its own circumstances and locality.· Can prizes be awarded without compromising the very foundation on which National Certificate assessment is built?· For primary class teachers, the National Curriculum and assessment provide the overwhelming preoccupation.· A programme of national assessment began in May 1978 and concerned itself with the standard achieved by 11 year olds.· As the scheme of national assessment develops, the less crucial will earlier stages seem to become.· The national assessment system will serve several purposes.
· It also hampers any objective assessment of the value of treatment in these patients.· The implication is that further scientific research will eliminate residual uncertainties, allowing for a more objective assessment of harm.· It uses all sorts of quantitative and qualitative data, and allows all types of subjective and objective assessments.· Seeking a second opinion is strongly advised to obtain an objective assessment.· Listing, in theory, is an objective assessment of architectural or historical importance which does not necessarily prevent demolition.· This has meant that many studies tend to concentrate on the objective assessment of a fiscally quantifiable reality.
· Northumbria has received a generous increase in standard spending assessment of 17.3 percent.· That is exactly what the standard spending assessment system has been designed to do.· Yet the Government's spending assessment requires savings of £4m that will cost 140 teachers' jobs.· The standard spending assessment for all services in Derbyshire was set at 17 percent. over the 1990-91 figure.· Moreover, the Government's original standard spending assessment may or may not be realistic.· According to its standard spending assessment, Manchester needs 69 percent. more money to provide the same level of service.· The local authorities need to know now how the standard spending assessments will be calculated so that they can make definite financial plans.
· Northumbria has received a generous increase in standard spending assessment of 17.3 percent.· That is exactly what the standard spending assessment system has been designed to do.· The standard spending assessment for all services in Derbyshire was set at 17 percent. over the 1990-91 figure.· Moreover, the Government's original standard spending assessment may or may not be realistic.· According to its standard spending assessment, Manchester needs 69 percent. more money to provide the same level of service.· The local authorities need to know now how the standard spending assessments will be calculated so that they can make definite financial plans.· My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary and I received representations from local authorities about their standard spending assessments.
NOUN· I want to consider whether the way in which environmental impact assessments are drawn up at the moment is satisfactory.· The hon. Gentleman also mentioned the environmental impact assessment.· Why did the right hon. Gentleman not decide to have a higher grade environmental impact assessment?· Enviroscope specialises in scoping environmental impact assessments and environmental audits and assisting companies with environmental communications and policy.· As a consultant specialising in environmental impact assessments and environmental audits I feel that this criticism is rather unfair.· Nearly half its projects had a full or partial environmental impact assessment carried out prior to funding.
· They are boycotting new assessment procedures, claiming social welfare officers were not being recognised for increased workloads.· The assessment procedures consisted of bimonthly interviews of the patients and a friend or relative with whom the patient was living.· The new authority will be flexible and use local visits as part of its assessment procedure.· Will this be another undue pressure put on the assessment procedures?· The study will also evaluate the assessment procedures in use and examine their impact on children and on the school more generally.· This age-related assessment is thus intended to complement the usual assessment procedures of a school.· Does it adequately outline assessment procedures which will identify the needs of the deaf child?
· Through this, an agreement has been reached on the role of General Practitioners and other medical practitioners in the assessment process.· Involving users directly in the needs assessment process, thus ensuring them a voice in assistance provided to them. 3.· Developing and testing the standards, including assessment processes.· Specially developed computer based material can also be used as part of the assessment process.· The picture of pupil participation in the assessment process was less obvious in the other two art departments visited.· Interpersonal skills are crucial since it is largely through the medium of interpersonal communication that the assessment process is conducted.· The role of the learner and peers in the assessment process should also be considered.· Finally, the formulation stage involves using the results of the assessment process to identify objectives, plans, and strategies.
· Some people think there is a danger of making the wrong risk assessment.· Hronek also performs site-specific safety and risk assessment consultations for government and organizations.· There are three levels of problems: mortgage origination underwriting, mortgage insurance underwriting, and delinquency risk assessment.· Let us now consider some of the economic and political factors generally incorporated into country risk assessment models applicable to non-OECD countries.· So the safe levels that are set at the moment are still based on the risk assessments of cancer?· Authorised conditions of disposal can be recorded together with any associated risk assessments.· By its very nature, political risk assessment must be subjective, i.e. not based on numerical data.
VERB· Assessment of the problem Effective intervention and treatment is based on an accurate assessment of the presenting problem.· Eligibility is determined by a means test administered by the solicitor and based upon assessment of disposable income and capital.· These estimates were based on a four-stage assessment of the effects of creating free movement.· So the safe levels that are set at the moment are still based on the risk assessments of cancer?· Funding will be based on an assessment of individual departments.· It is linked to an appraisal system usually based upon a banded assessment of performance.· It is based on different assessments, different views.· Knowing which kind of support to offer requires the practitioner to use deep empathy based on affirmative assessment.
· The failure to carry out assessments and to inform and involve parents has already been covered here.· Therefore it is proposed to carry out an assessment of your child's needs under the Education Act 1981 with your agreement.· There are also considerable differences between the sexes in typical speech styles, which carry implications for assessment.· They would carry out an initial assessment, based on an evaluation of your lifestyle, age, level of anxiety and so on.· Marks and grade Each module credit carries an assessment weighting of 100 marks.· All colleges and institutions of higher education are required to carry out some assessment of student performance and potential.· In future they should carry out assessments and reassessments only.· He is involved with carrying out community care assessments.
· Basic testing will include an assessment of distance vision.· Employers' duties under the Regulations include assessment of suitable equipment, maintenance information, instruction and training.· The course also includes assessment of practical work and investigation.· It should include assessment and provide feedback on progress with glycosylated haemoglobin levels.· At Ernst & Young, the performance review system includes assessments of knowledge capturing, archiving, sharing and use.· The section on animal welfare includes its assessment, philosophy and legislation.
· Hence the ubiquity of testing, and evaluation schemes which involve the assessment of teacher or student performances.· Since it involved a fresh assessment of wealth it encountered some hostility.· They are practical and very work specific and involve on-the-job assessments and a portfolio of work examples.· Psychiatrists should continue to be involved in the assessment and management of these patients alongside other professionals.· The regulation of insider dealing necessarily involves a complex assessment of the available regulatory options.· The area of involving parents in assessment of the development and progress of their young children is a growing one.· It would hear appeals involving assessments, chaired by a lawyer, and decisions would be legally binding.· Coursework may be carried out individually or in groups; the latter may involve peer assessment.
· Once you are certain of your entitlements you can make a proper assessment of your financial situation.· A literature search has to be made by the learner, who then makes an assessment of the particular problem.· Competency in making valid assessments takes time and training.· Against this, they will be making continuous assessments of the scale of current bank lending.· They were told in May to avoid making errors in assessments, and to stop peasants concealing the extent of their property.· They learn not to take things on trust, but to make sure they fully comprehend in order to make their own assessments.· Having made this assessment, the marketer should be aware of the potential problems which exist in communication within different cultures.
· As David Browning points out, practitioners from health and social services will need to coordinate their assessment activities.· The chief problem is needs assessment and challenges by clients or their advocates over unmet need.· Children need full assessment and follow up care to aid recovery.· Criminal fraud is notoriously difficult to establish and the evidence required to do so needs careful and skilled assessment.· Referrals Offering the right kind of help where it is needed requires a comprehensive assessment scheme.· A high percentage of clients and patients will need complex interdisciplinary assessments.· The professional framework will be in place - systems have been designed to support the all important task of needs assessments.
· These figures on their own do not really provide a full assessment of the effectiveness of planning.· Setting intermediate goals and providing an assessment of them is another way that feedback can help the student adjust her learning.· To provide a specialist assessment and treatment service. 6.· When one gives the learner feedback on her ability these skills provide a framework for assessment.· A good service may cost more in terms of staffing, but would contribute to a reduction in medical-bed occupancy by providing early assessment.· In the second question you must provide assessment and argument for yourself; there is a lower information content.· Initially he provided an assessment and counselling service for the families of people with eating disorders.
· On some other questions about politics, description requires assessments that raise complicated issues about power, interests, and values.· Nevertheless it requires separate assessment, not least because it drew on certain areas of experience not directly dominated by the monarch.· At the same time, the report urges state lawmakers to require clearer performance and assessment plans from all charter schools.· Referrals Offering the right kind of help where it is needed requires a comprehensive assessment scheme.· Part of the analysis required a detailed assessment of public safety.· In essence, this requires assessment of whether the extra benefits exceed the higher costs.· Increasing evidence for major changes in the environment during the Vendian and Cambrian also require further assessment.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- Against this, they will be making continuous assessments of the scale of current bank lending.
- B.Eds were about equally divided between continuous assessment and examinations, with some project work.
- Many of our courses include a project in the continuous assessment element.
- On none of these courses was there any examination: continuous assessment was preferred.
- People only accumulate competencies by continuous assessment of skills they do in their day to day job.
- Student performance will be judged on the basis of degree examination results, thesis and continuous assessment, following current University regulations.
- Student progress is monitored by means of continuous assessment on a range of practical exercises.
- The intrinsic discipline of the subject is conveyed through the course-work and teaching approach, while being monitored through continuous assessment.
WORD FAMILYnounassessmentassessorverbassess
1a process in which you make a judgment about a person or situation, or the judgment you makeassessment of What’s Michael’s assessment of the situation? a reading assessment test2a calculation about the cost or value of something: a tax assessment → continuous assessment at continuous(3)COLLOCATIONSverbsmake an assessment· I had to make a quick assessment of the situation and act accordingly.do/carry out an assessment· A teacher does a yearly assessment of each child’s progress.adjectivesa general/overall/broad assessment (=that covers the main features or parts of something, not the details)· The doctor must carry out a general assessment of the patient’s health.a detailed assessment· We need a detailed assessment of what this will cost.a comprehensive assessment (=that includes all the necessary facts or details)· Our clients receive a comprehensive assessment of their financial affairs.an objective assessment (=that is based on facts, not on feelings or beliefs)· The test results will provide an objective assessment of how much you have improved.somebody’s personal assessment· What’s your personal assessment of the risks?assessment + NOUNthe assessment procedure/process· Parents need to feel part of the assessment procedure.assessment methods/techniques· We recommend using a variety of assessment methods.