evaluative

American  

[i-val-yoo-ayt-uhv, i-val-yoo-uht-uhv] / ɪˈvæl yuˌeɪt əv, ɪˈvæl yu ət əv /

adjective

1. relating to, involving, or used in evaluation.

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Other Word Forms

• evaluatively adverb
• non-evaluative adjective
• self-evaluative adjective

Example Sentences

The 21-year-old sociology major supports a growing trend in higher education of professors giving evaluative feedback rather than A through F grades, especially to first-year undergraduate and graduate students.

From Washington Times

We tend to think about groups in negative terms, and when you're making evaluative judgments about things, they tend to be dualistic, black-and-white and unequivocal.

From Salon

Rutherford urges parents to shed their “evaluative mode” on family vacations and to opt for detachment instead.

From Washington Post

Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at Stanford University Graduate School of Education, cautions grandparents not to be “evaluative,” however.

From Seattle Times

Amazon spent decades recruiting millions of customers to help build and operate a vast, complicated evaluative apparatus to extract and represent human desire, preference, and subjective, unknowable experience.

From New York Times