What is this estimate?

"I got a good evaluation," "Absolutely marks"in these expressions and in colloquial speech, the words" score "and" mark "are often used as absolute synonyms, but is it right? What are the criteria for their exposure in different spheres, what is the difference between them, what kind of species they are and what or who can be evaluated - all of this will be discussed below.

Let's turn to the dictionary

The word "mark" has several meanings, similaronly in the fact that they are talking about determining the value of a phenomenon by any parameter. The main interpretations of the dictionary article are three:

• directly process the assessment, determine the quality parameters and the amount of something;
• any opinion, opinion or opinion about something or about someone;
• A mark that is exhibited to students in educational institutions.

As you can see, in the latter case the words"evaluation" and "mark" become synonyms, especially in education, intersect in their meanings, but still they have some differences, which will be discussed below. The basic meanings of the word "mark" are as follows:

• a sign indicating something, or the process of putting up such signs;
• registering a record;
• a certain symbol of knowledge and / or behavior of the student;
• the designation by means of the figures of the height of an object relative to the sea level or another point taken as the reference point.

Grades and grades in the classroom

Contrary to the frequent use of the terms "valuation" and"mark", even in school life between them there is a significant difference. A mark is an indicator of a student's performance relative to an ideal, expressed in numbers or points. At the same time, an evaluation is an indicator of the student's performance, his growth relative to his indicators at the beginning of the current stage of training.

The latter is broader and more precisecharacteristic of the student's knowledge, since it often includes also some recommendations that can be useful. Translating the results of evaluation into scores greatly narrows their meaning and content, moreover, it can turn the learning process into a chase after the mark for the sake of the mark itself.

How to evaluate the activity?

In the case of activities, evaluation is enougha formal procedure for assessing the activities of an employee, often associated with collecting information about how well he performs the tasks assigned to him. At the same time, the assessment goes both in comparison with the results of other people, and in comparison with the employee's own results in the past. In this case, the evaluation of activities, also called the labor assessment, is a multilateral process. It takes into account both the effectiveness of the activity, and the discipline of the employee, his reputation and their impact on the overall success of the work.

What is the assessment of the conditions in which work is taking place?

What are the parameters for this position? In talking about working conditions, evaluation is a set of activities whose task is to identify harmful and / or dangerous factors in the environment in which the work takes place, correlating them with established norms, and determining how they affect the health of employees and the success of their activities. This evaluation includes several stages:

• identification of hazards in the workplace;
• Assessment of the extent to which the conditions in the workplace meet the requirements of labor protection;
• monitoring of the situation on the ground with hazardous and / or harmful working conditions;
• the establishment of special guarantees for workers with hazardous and / or harmful working conditions and the payment of statutory compensations.

As examples of enterprises where such inspections are carried out much more often, one can name nuclear power plants, factories and factories associated with the chemical industry, mines and drilling rigs.

What is the evaluation of works of art?

It is often not enough to evaluateOnly phenomena that have applied significance, but also cultural phenomena. For example, art works are regularly evaluated. In this case, an evaluation is a determination of how much the product corresponds to certain criteria specified in advance. Here we can distinguish two coordinate systems: a modern one, which includes only the criterion of innovation of the work, its novelty, and the traditional system, which includes several factors at once:

• an aesthetic criterion, which includes both the notion of the beautiful and ugly, and the criterion of expressiveness and inexpressiveness;
• an epistemological criterion containing such pairs as "true-false," "understandable-incomprehensible", "reasonable-unreasonable";
• moral and ethical criterion, assessing a work of art in terms of morality, normality, creativity and destructiveness;
• emotional-evaluation criterion, the most subjective of the above, evaluating the product, for example, from the position of how interesting it is for a person.

Summarizing

Summarizing, we can say that evaluation is a phenomenonwide enough, affecting both the industrial and cultural spheres of our lives. Moreover, it often is somewhat subjective, although work is under way to create universal, absolutely objective evaluation criteria that would minimize the impact of human emotions on the process of evaluating a particular object, phenomenon, deed or event, their quality and influence on those or other areas of activity.