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:
    • System Performance Evaluations for technical assessments.
    • Employee Performance Reviews for personnel assessments.
    • Product Quality Evaluations for quality control.
  • Research Evaluations, such as:
    • Algorithm Evaluations for computational assessments.
    • Experiment Evaluations for scientific validation.
    • Research Outcome Evaluations for impact assessment.
  • 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.

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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.

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