EVALUATION:

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VALUATION IS THE PROCESS OF DETERMINING THE VALUE OR QUALITY OF THE PROCESS AND PRODUCT OF EDUCATION, ESPECIALLY LEARNING, BASED ON THE RESULTS OF ASSESSMENT RELATIVE TO SPECIFIED OBJECTIVES, STANDARDS OR CRITERIA.  EVALUATION IS JUDGMENTAL WITH EITHER EXTERNAL OR INTERNAL CRITERIA. UNLIKE, MEASUREMENT, EVALUATION IS SUBJECTIVELY DEPENDENT ON THE STANDARD OR CRITERIA ON WHICH THE EVALUATION DECISION IS BASED. FOR EXAMPLE, IN PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT, WHILE A HEIGHT OF 1.65M REPRESENTS AN OBJECTIVE RESULT OF THE HEIGHT OF AN INDIVIDUAL, WHETHER THIS REPRESENTS A TALL , SHORT OR AVERAGE HEIGHT IS THE RESULT OF EVALUATION AND DEPENDS ON THE POPULATION WHERE THE HEIGHT IS TAKEN. JOHN IS 1.45M IN HEIGHT EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD, BUT WITH THE PIGMIES, JOHN IS A TALL PERSON WHILE WITH THE FULANI, JOHN IS A SHORT PERSON. SIMILARLY, A SCORE OF 65% IS THE OBJECTIVE RESULT OF ASSESSMENT, WHETHER THIS REPRESENTS A PASS OR FAIL, A C OR D GRADE, ETC., IS THE RESULT OF EVALUATION AND SUCH DECISION DEPENDS ON THE RELATIVE VALUE OF THE SCORE GIVEN SOME SPECIFIED CRITERIA. SO WHILE THE RESULT OF ASSESSMENT IS SUBJECTIVELY RELATIVE, THAT FROM MEASUREMENT IS OBJECTIVELY INDEPENDENT OF ANY CRITERIA.