evaluation criteria
Assessment measuring sticks
Evaluation criteria are the standards or benchmarks used to judge something's quality, value, or suitability.
They establish what matters in an assessment: The grant's evaluation criteria included originality and feasibility.
Selection committees, peer reviewers, and judges rely on explicit criteria to make decisions transparent and consistent.
The phrase often appears in institutional contexts—academic grading, job applications, contract bids—where subjective judgment needs grounding in stated measures.
- checkOrder to pay
- testEvaluative examination
- benchmark testEvaluation against established norms
- assessmentFormal evaluation of worth
- grading rubricCriteria for evaluation
comprehensiveness · validity · measurability · reliability · rubric · performance metrics · fairness · evaluations · accountability · due diligence · subjectivity · peer review · norm-referenced · relevance · usability · transparency · scale · pass
- goalsgoals, goal, aims, objective, objectives
- hiringhiring, job, interview, resume, application
- evaluationreview, assessing, feedback, comparing, judgment
- performance reviewsperformance review, appraisals, annual review, evaluations, performance appraisal
- rubricsrubrics, grading rubric, scoring rubric, scoring guide, rating scale
- teacher requirementscertification, licensure, credentials, competencies, performance metrics
evaluation criteriagut instinct
Immediate unreasoned knowing
gut feeling · intuition · hunch · snap judgment · whim
evaluation criteriaprejudice
Preformed unfavorable opinion
caprice · favoritism · knee-jerk reaction · emotional response · speculation
evaluation criteriarandomness
Lack of predictable pattern
chance · coin flip · guesswork · shooting from the hip · winging it