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The Core Assessment Vocabulary represents and defines what an “Assessment” of “assets” is and how to perform the assessment based on “Criteria”. It is a domain-agnostic vocabulary, meaning that it can be used to assess any type of assets.
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Evaluation and Assessment, what is the difference? #4

Open paulakeen opened 3 years ago

paulakeen commented 3 years ago

An interesting and never ended discussion was raised time ago in the group of CAV experts what whether there is any difference between Evaluation and Assessment.

There are different opinion on this topic, but all the participants seemed to agree that they are not the same and therefore both should be clearly defined and disambiguated.

My opinion is that evaluation can be calculated, e.g. by means of a formula or equation (see also Issue #3), and assessment entails a value judgement that uses the scored criteria (objectively calculated results) to issue 'statements' (see CAV conceptual model). This statements and additional rationale are usually collected in an Assessment that is 'reported' to someone.

Please, react on this and let's elaborate and agree on definitions and explanations.

costas80 commented 3 years ago

This is an interesting topic and I agree with the terminology provided by @paulakeen. It seems that if definitions are to be updated this would be for the cav:Assessment and cav:CriterionEvaluationContext (or cav:EvaluationContext - see #13 ). For example:

cav:Assessment:

The intellectual work to evaluate an asset against the criteria of a given scenario. The evaluation process produces objective outputs that are then considered to form value judgments expressed as the assessment's statements.

cav:CriterionEvaluationContext / cav:EvaluationContext:

The context for a criterion providing guidance on its evaluation considering the given scenario. This is used exceptionally to extend the context offered by the scenario when it is not sufficient for the evaluation of a given criterion. An criterion's evaluation produces an objective output that will then be considered to form value judgments expressed as the assessment's statements.

jseguraf commented 3 years ago

We will work on the definitions as proposed. The WG agrees on: 1. that there is a difference between assessment and evaluation, meaning that assessment is the judgement value issued on what has been objectively evaluated; 2. a very clear disambiguation between an assessment and evaluation.