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  2. Evaluation - Wikipedia

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    In common usage, evaluation is a systematic determination and assessment of a subject's merit, worth and significance, using criteria governed by a set of standards.It can assist an organization, program, design, project or any other intervention or initiative to assess any aim, realizable concept/proposal, or any alternative, to help in decision-making; or to generate the degree of ...

  3. Polynomial evaluation - Wikipedia

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    Horner's method evaluates a polynomial using repeated bracketing: + + + + + = + (+ (+ (+ + (+)))). This method reduces the number of multiplications and additions to just Horner's method is so common that a computer instruction "multiply–accumulate operation" has been added to many computer processors, which allow doing the addition and multiplication operations in one combined step.

  4. Performance appraisal - Wikipedia

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    A performance appraisal, also referred to as a performance review, performance evaluation, [1] (career) development discussion, [2] or employee appraisal, sometimes shortened to "PA", [a] is a periodic and systematic process whereby the job performance of an employee is documented and evaluated.

  5. Program evaluation - Wikipedia

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    Program evaluation is a systematic method for collecting, analyzing, and using information to answer questions about projects, policies and programs, [1] particularly about their effectiveness and efficiency.

  6. Empowerment evaluation - Wikipedia

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    Empowerment evaluation was introduced in 1993 by David Fetterman during his presidential address at the American Evaluation Association’s (AEA) annual meeting. [1]The approach was initially well received by some researchers who commented on the complementary relationship between EE and community psychology, social work, community development and adult education.

  7. Animal Charity Evaluators - Wikipedia

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    ACE publishes its recommended charities once a year in November, ahead of Giving Tuesday.In 2023, ACE recommended 11 charities: Çiftlik Hayvanlarını Koruma Derneği, Dansk Vegetarisk Forening, Faunalytics, Fish Welfare Initiative, Legal Impact for Chickens, New Roots Institute (formerly known as the Factory Farming Awareness Coalition), Shrimp Welfare Project, Sinergia Animal, the Good Food ...

  8. Charity assessment - Wikipedia

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    Charity assessment is the process of analysis of the goodness of a non-profit organization in financial terms. [1] Historically, charity evaluators have focused on the question of how much of contributed funds are used for the purpose(s) claimed by the charity, while more recently some evaluators have placed an emphasis on the cost effectiveness (or impact) of charities.

  9. Lazy evaluation - Wikipedia

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    In programming language theory, lazy evaluation, or call-by-need, [1] is an evaluation strategy which delays the evaluation of an expression until its value is needed (non-strict evaluation) and which avoids repeated evaluations (by the use of sharing).