evaluative
Involving critical judgment
Evaluative means involving judgment or assessment of value, quality, or worth.
An evaluative statement expresses approval or disapproval rather than neutral description.
Evaluative criteria are the standards by which something is judged.
The word appears often in academic and professional contexts: evaluative feedback, evaluative research.
Formal evaluation of worth
- ratingAssigned evaluative score
- gradingAssigning marks to work
- scoringEarning points in competition
- rankingOrdered position assignment
measuring · gauging · benchmarking · weighing · valuing · estimating · calibrating · standardizing
Expressing disapproval or importance
- subjectiveBased on personal perspective
- objectivePurpose or goal
- biasedUnfairly favoring one side
- opinionatedFirmly attached to beliefs
censorious · faultfinding · hypercritical · captious · nitpicking · carping · caviling · discriminating
Drawing logical conclusions
- logicalBased on valid reasoning
- systematicFollowing ordered procedures
- methodicalOrganized and deliberate
- diagnosticTest to identify problems
interpretive · inferential · deductive · inductive · empirical · qualitative · quantitative · comparative
Degree of importance
- meritDeserved praise-worthiness
- qualityStandard or attribute
- excellenceOutstanding quality or merit
- superiorityHigher rank or quality
inferiority · adequacy · suitability · effectiveness · utility · desirability · significance · relevance
assessment
Formal evaluation of worth
ranking · measuring · gauging · benchmarking · weighing · valuing · estimating · calibrating · standardizing · testing
critical
Expressing disapproval or importance
- subjectiveBased on personal perspective
- objectivePurpose or goal
- biasedUnfairly favoring one side
opinionated · censorious · faultfinding · hypercritical · captious · nitpicking · carping · caviling · discriminating · selective
reasoning
Drawing logical conclusions
- logicalBased on valid reasoning
- systematicFollowing ordered procedures
- methodicalOrganized and deliberate
diagnostic · interpretive · inferential · deductive · inductive · empirical · qualitative · quantitative · comparative · conceptual
worth
Degree of importance
- meritDeserved praise-worthiness
- qualityStandard or attribute
- excellenceOutstanding quality or merit
superiority · inferiority · adequacy · suitability · effectiveness · utility · desirability · significance · relevance · importance
- modifiersadjectives, modifier, modifiers, adjective, adverb
- qualitativequalitative, descriptive, interpretive, subjective, observational
- research methodsexperiment, hypothesis, deduction, experiments, induction
- biasedbiased, subjective, slanted, partisan, prejudiced
evaluativedescriptive
Portraying with specific details
neutral · objective · factual · value-neutral · reportorial
evaluativeuncritical
Lacking discerning judgment
noncritical · accepting · unquestioning · credulous · undiscriminating
- evaluation reportWritten assessment of performance
- teacher evaluationsRatings of instructors
- custody evaluationStudy determining child placement
- psych evaluation
- employee evaluationsPeriodic worker performance assessments
- mental health evaluationClinical review of psychological condition
evaluation, evaluating, devaluation, reevaluation, evaluations, revaluation, reevaluating