Assessment Task

An Assessment Task is an analysis task that requires systematic evaluation of performance, quality, or characteristics of some target entity.

AKA: Evaluation Task, Review Task.
Context:
- Task Input: Evaluation Criteria, Assessment Target
  - Optional Input: Measurement Metrics, Data Collection, Assessment Framework
- Task Output: Evaluation Result, Assessment Report
- Task Performance Measure: Assessment Qualitys such as reliability, validity, and objectivity
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- It can range from being a Self-Assessment to being an External Assessment, depending on its assessment perspective.
- It can range from being a Qualitative Assessment to being a Quantitative Assessment, depending on its evaluation methodology.
- It can range from being an Empirical Evaluation to being a Theoretical Evaluation, depending on its evaluation approach.
- It can range from being a Human-Performed Evaluation to being an Automated Evaluation, depending on its execution mode.
- It can range from being a Process Evaluation to being a System Evaluation, depending on its assessment scope.
- It can range from being a Formative Evaluation to being a Summative Evaluation, depending on its evaluation timing.
- It can range from being a Simple Metric Evaluation to being a Complex Multi-Criteria Evaluation, depending on its evaluation complexity.
- It can range from being a Subjective Evaluation to being an Objective Evaluation, depending on its assessment approach.
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- It can be a Domain-Specific Assessment, such as a health assessment, financial assessment, educational assessment, legal assessment, or risk assessment.
- It can have Evaluation Phases including planning, execution, analysis, and reporting.
- It can be supported by an Evaluation System that implements an evaluation algorithm.
- It can generate Evaluation Insights for decision making.
- It can maintain Assessment Records for accountability.
- It can be part of a Quality Assurance Process.
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Examples:
- Domain-Specific Assessments, such as:
  - Health Assessments, such as medical check-ups and health screenings.
  - Financial Assessments, such as credit evaluations and investment analysis.
  - Educational Assessments, such as student evaluations and program reviews.
  - Legal Assessments, such as compliance reviews and legal risk analysis.
  - Environmental Assessments, such as impact studys and sustainability reviews.
- Performance Evaluations, such as:
- Research Evaluations, such as:
- Process Evaluations, such as:
  - Business Process Evaluations for efficiency assessments.
  - Service Quality Evaluations for delivery assessments.
- Risk Assessments, such as:
  - Vulnerability Assessments for security evaluations.
  - Business Risk Assessments for strategic planning.
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Counter-Examples:
- Creation Tasks, which focus on generating rather than assessing.
- Opinion Surveys, which collect subjective feedback without systematic evaluation.
- Personal Reflections, which involve self-examination without formal assessment criteria.
- Modeling Tasks, which focus on prediction rather than evaluation.
- Implementation Tasks, which execute rather than assess processes.
See: Analysis Task, Measurement Task, Validation Task, Quality Control Task, Performance Analysis Task, Testing Task.

References

2016

(Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/assessment Retrieved:2016-9-30.
- Assessment may refer to:
  - Educational assessment, the process of documenting knowledge, skills, attitudes, and beliefs
  - Health assessment, a plan of care that identifies the specific needs of the client and how those needs will be addressed by the healthcare system
  - Nursing assessment, the gathering of information about a patient's physiological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual status
  - Political assessment, assessment of officeholders for political donations.
  - Psychiatric assessment, a process of gathering information about a person within a psychiatric or mental health service with the purpose of making a diagnosis
  - Psychological assessment, an examination into a person's mental health by a mental health professional such as a psychologist
  - Risk assessment, the determination of quantitative or qualitative value of risk related to a concrete situation and a recognized threat
  - Tax assessment, value calculated as the basis for determining the amounts to be paid or assessed for tax or insurance purposes
  - Vulnerability assessment, the process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritizing (or ranking) the vulnerabilities in a system
  - Writing Assessment, an area of study within composition studies that looks at the practices, technologies, and process of using writing to assess performance and potential

2015

(Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/assessment Retrieved:2015-12-6.
- Assessment may refer to:
  - Educational assessment, the process of documenting knowledge, skills, attitudes, and beliefs
  - Health assessment, a plan of care that identifies the specific needs of the client and how those needs will be addressed by the healthcare system
  - Nursing assessment, the gathering of information about a patient's physiological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual status
  - Political assessment, assessment of officeholders for political donations.
  - Psychiatric assessment, a process of gathering information about a person within a psychiatric or mental health service with the purpose of making a diagnosis
  - Psychological assessment, an examination into a person's mental health by a mental health professional such as a psychologist
  - Risk assessment, the determination of quantitative or qualitative value of risk related to a concrete situation and a recognized threat
  - Tax assessment, value calculated as the basis for determining the amounts to be paid or assessed for tax or insurance purposes
  - Vulnerability assessment, the process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritizing (or ranking) the vulnerabilities in a system
  - Writing Assessment, an area of study within composition studies that looks at the practices, technologies, and process of using writing to assess performance and potential

2009

(WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=assessment
- S: (n) appraisal, assessment (the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth)
- S: (n) assessment (an amount determined as payable) "the assessment for repairs outraged the club's membership"
- S: (n) assessment (the market value set on assets)
- S: (n) judgment, judgement, assessment (the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event) "they criticized my judgment of the contestants"
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/assessment#Noun
- 1. The act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed.
- 2. An appraisal or evaluation.