verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
assess/evaluate the merits of sth (= to decide what is good about something using careful methods )
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Has any study assessed the merits of the two schools?
assess/evaluate/review sb’s progress
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We appraise the work and evaluate each student’s individual progress.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
carefully
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This model of consumer input is clearly not cost-free and is being carefully evaluated .
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When gouty patients are found to have impaired renal function, they should be evaluated carefully for other causes of renal damage.
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We should be careful to avoid introducing change for change's sake and should carefully evaluate potential disadvantages as well as advantages.
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These workers are the most mobile and have the greatest incentive to evaluate carefully the relative and absolute risks.
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Variation between companies with different characteristics such as size, growth, and ownership will be carefully evaluated .
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New methods must be carefully evaluated according to the criteria of cost and ease of application.
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With the advent of the millennium, youngsters continue to be carefully evaluated through entrance exams and personal interviews.
■ NOUN
ability
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Is awe-inspiring in her ability to evaluate verbal communications and numerical data.
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The ability to openly evaluate the wares offered is a fundamental principle of a viable marketplace.
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The next stage is an important one in your ability to evaluate , assess and improve your own work.
attempt
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Now several alternative notations are available, and no attempt to evaluate all of them has yet been made.
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This is the first reported attempt to evaluate the mucosal availability of 5-ASA after different oral preparations.
effect
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Corporately teachers can plan and develop strategies, translate them into practice and monitor and evaluate their effect .
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When using covert sensitization, it is important to evaluate its effect on both drinking behavior and urges to drink.
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The major objective will be to monitor these innovations and to attempt to evaluate their effects .
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We can now evaluate the effects of this change in terms of the alteration in surplus.
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Again a series of experimental projects was set up in order to evaluate the effect of the measure on traffic safety.
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Miller also plan to make a detailed record of mud losses in the reservoir to evaluate the effects on formation productivity.
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The teacher's evaluation of the effectiveness of a technique will depend inpart on the way the learners evaluate its effects .
effectiveness
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Discussion of the film afterwards can aid the teacher in evaluating the effectiveness of the film.
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After prevention strategies are formulated and implemented, they must be evaluated for effectiveness .
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Pupils learn by doing and by evaluating the effectiveness of what they have done.
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Many attempts to evaluate its effectiveness have shown little or no benefit, possibly due to methodological problems.
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The more senior nurse helps to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing care given and the planning of continued care.
evidence
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Very few have been evaluated , and the evidence is largely anecdotal, he said.
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You must evaluate your evidence , check it against other sources and decide if it is reliable.
impact
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Secondly, it will evaluate the impact of government economic strategies within each area.
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To evaluate the impact of government budgets, it is necessary to look at total revenue and total expenditures as a whole.
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The need to evaluate the impact of particular innovations is now well recognized.
information
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The auditor must therefore judge the suitability of the systems and the data produced as the basis for evaluating accounting information .
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A further problem about this role is the criteria by which we evaluate the information and material.
material
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Teachers will learn how to evaluate materials in the light of the theoretical background.
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The development of an effective network arrangement to create and evaluate materials and technology needed for hearing impaired learners. 2.
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A wide range of examples illustrate the text, designed to help teachers evaluate and adapt the materials they themselves use.
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To work in groups and be able to critically evaluate materials .
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A further problem about this role is the criteria by which we evaluate the information and material .
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It will also pay to evaluate how the material is coping with weathering and wear from traffic.
method
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This orientation method was evaluated by psychometric methods directed towards both process and product.
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They evaluate various construction methods and determine the most cost-effective plan and schedule.
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The trend towards non-price competition requires firms to evaluate their own methods of assembling the marketing mix for their markets.
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Yet epidemiologists in many countries have independently evaluated possible methods of transmission and have reached the same conclusions.
option
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Without computer modelling, the engineer is forced to take short cuts by evaluating fewer design options .
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They determine computer hardware requirements, evaluate equipment options , and make purchasing decisions.
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It also explores their use to evaluate and cost negotiating options during formal negotiating meetings.
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These data aided Tyler immeasurably as he evaluated potential options .
patient
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A subsidiary analysis evaluated those patients adhering fully to the protocol.
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Ideally, rehabilitation began with doctors evaluating patients and making estimates about the potential recovery of muscle use and strength.
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Oesophageal radionuclide transit was evaluated in 15 patients and a barium meal was performed in five cases to confirm endoscopical findings.
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Abnormalities in the inhibition of motility during sleep should be evaluated in patients who report nocturnal faecal incontinence.
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Longterm outcome could be evaluated in 90 patients .
performance
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In evaluating corporate performance an attempt will be made to link accounting rates of return to an internal rate of return.
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Most of us can evaluate their performances only on the basis of a general impression and questionable memory.
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To provide information useful for evaluating managerial and organizational performance .
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The workers also participate in such matters as production scheduling, solving quality problems, evaluating performance and recommending new equipment.
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In this example, Ricci goes much further than evaluating her daughter's performance .
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He also had to develop short-term goals for himself every week and evaluate his job performance at the end of the summer.
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How do we evaluate their performance ?
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They could provide guidance for keeping education-and-training programs current and evaluating their performance .
policy
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Each year the authoritative magazine Money Management evaluates with-profits endowment policies taken out 10, 15 and 25 years ago.
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He quickly met the inertia of a civil service used to forming and evaluating policy as well as carrying it out.
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This model will be used to evaluate alternative policies for encouraging economic development in rural Grampian and similar rural areas.
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Differentiating the variance of Y and evaluating at, this policy can he seen to reduce the coefficient of variation if.
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In this and the next two chapters, we attempt to unravel and evaluate policies effected by the Conservative governments after 1979.
product
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Surveys to evaluate new product ideas Concept testing.
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Take advantage of sales, specials, and coupons, but not without evaluating the products . 18.
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It aims to promote, rather than to evaluate , the product .
progress
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Many catering colleges consider the award to be an ideal opportunity to evaluate their students' progress against other catering colleges.
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Each community has created industry-led committees that can help set policy and evaluate progress .
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Regular review sessions will be held to enable students to identify the learning gained and to evaluate progress .
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These groups meet quarterly to set policy and evaluate progress .
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Results of assessments are sometimes used to evaluate the progress of pupils, classes, schools or local education authorities.
project
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Banks involved in oil project financing have to evaluate financial and country risk in the manner previously described.
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The overall aim of the project is to evaluate current company practice with reference to marketing management information systems.
proposal
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You only have to look at what gets funded and who evaluates the proposals .
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The Task Force set high standards for evaluating proposals for changes in the new manual.
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A Washington-based advisory group on historic preservation must first evaluate the proposal .
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During the next year, scientists will evaluate the proposal and begin informal discussions with possible international partners.
quality
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A different approach to evaluating the balance between quality and quantity of life is to ask the patient.
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Standards for evaluating quality in different kinds of meat poultry, and fish have been established.
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Data thus accumulated are evaluated statistically using a quality control chart.
research
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Such business must carry a subsidy of some sort and the research seeks to evaluate it.
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Senior staffing the northern agency did attempt during the research period systematically to evaluate their officers' work from their sampling records.
result
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For the following reasons this case series seems suitable for evaluating the longterm results of Nissen fundoplication.
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Then you can experiment, try a variety of functions, alter the structures, and evaluate the differing results .
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The company's timetable for evaluating the results of the tests has also been criticized as too tight.
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Certain considerations must be recognized when evaluating the results of laboratory nutritional assessments.
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The university will run the clinical trial and evaluate the results .
role
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It s impossible today to evaluate Putin's exact role in Spag.
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This study is the first to evaluate the role of food and fluids in preventing fainting and heart attacks in air travelers.
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Similar studies need to be done to evaluate the role of the cholinergic nerves in the gastric response to intragastric ethanol.
study
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The study will also evaluate the assessment procedures in use and examine their impact on children and on the school more generally.
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None were double-blinded except for a study evaluating implanted disulfiram, and few monitored compliance with the medication.
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None of the cited studies of children evaluated the prediction of mortality.
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Future studies evaluating mechanisms of gastrin release have to take into account the H pylori state.
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The studies were designed to evaluate the H pylori eradication potency of the various regimens and the post-therapeutic course of ulcer disease.
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The present study was done to evaluate the correlation between the two tests in humans.
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Completeness of the study sample was evaluated by scrutiny of neurology outpatient and general hospital records.
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In this study we evaluated the findings of follow up gastroscopies performed three years after primary gastroscopic screening of pernicious anaemia patients.
success
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In addition, what should the criteria be for evaluating the success of community economic development?
system
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It is difficult to evaluate different systems because they are traditionally idiosyncratic depending on their particular area of specialisation.
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The proposed solution will be evaluated , in accordance with the system evaluation criteria, by the Project Manager.
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How do the two peoples evaluate their systems ?
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Agreed to evaluate hardware systems up to the value of £7k, possibly to tie in with image analysis. 11.
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A wholistic approach to catalogue performance evaluation would also include how the user himself evaluates the system .
use
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Customers can also evaluate software free via use of temporary licences.
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This report evaluates the use of a new device, the Kensey-Nash Lithotrite, for gall stone destruction.
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One drug, called Adaquan, is on trial at Bristol for evaluating it s use in tendon repair.
work
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Senior staffing the northern agency did attempt during the research period systematically to evaluate their officers' work from their sampling records.
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Bob Taylor knew the most gifted computer scientists of his day be-cause he had evaluated their work for federal funding.
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A review panel of outside advisers is evaluating its work .
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What could be more desirable than the need to evaluate the work of our schools?
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The student's observation of a patient will be tested, and she can be guided to evaluate her work .
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Little detail is provided, however, and it is thus difficult to evaluate his work fully.
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It has also been argued that a reliance on external inspection alone removes from teachers the responsibility to evaluate their own work .
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Intuitive judgment must be recognised as a legitimate element in evaluating this work in schools.
■ VERB
design
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The studies were designed to evaluate the H pylori eradication potency of the various regimens and the post-therapeutic course of ulcer disease.
help
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For culture helps to explain and evaluate the realities of life.
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Pondering these questions will help us to evaluate its true benefits and costs.
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Publisher A knowledge of publisher's reputations and known specializations often help in evaluating a book's content.
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Each community has created industry-led committees that can help set policy and evaluate progress.
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Much has already been said to help you evaluate the importance of each symptom.
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A wide range of examples illustrate the text, designed to help teachers evaluate and adapt the materials they themselves use.
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The more senior nurse helps to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing care given and the planning of continued care.
identify
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A function of marketing research is to provide information that will help opportunities to be identified , evaluated , compared and selected.
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In the next chapter, detailed recommendations are given for identifying and evaluating these troubled students.
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All point to precisely the same problems as were identified when evaluating the original model fits.
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A five-phased approach begins with desk research, to identify and evaluate recent opinions of the contribution of marketing to corporate success.
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Business development teams invest time and attention in identifying and evaluating potential partners, and negotiating deals.
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The aim is to identify and evaluate the environmental effects of a project in its design, construction and operation.
need
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This is why the issue needs to be evaluated for its pedagogic validity to be established.
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They need to be evaluated in terms of their structuring, generative, contribution.
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They can do this by establishing clear guiding principles against which all actions need to be evaluated .
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Extended follow up is needed to evaluate the longterm results.
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Although useful for an initial screening programme, their continued use needs to be evaluated .
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Instead of needing to evaluate each title in the field personally, librarians may select from an already select list.
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At the outset potential screening tests need to be rigorously evaluated .
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It still needs to be evaluated in other terms to be effectively mediated into practice.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The new drug is being evaluated in clinical trials.
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The police force should not evaluate officers' performance in terms of the number of arrests they make.
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There was not enough time to evaluate the information before the meeting.
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Your work will be evaluated by members of the management team.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And setting targets and measuring sticks to evaluate projects would definitely increase efficiency if done properly.
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Each community has created industry-led committees that can help set policy and evaluate progress.
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Her office has directed department heads to evaluate expenses and hold off spending whenever possible.
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No such margin exists for health care provision, however, much of which has never been scientifically evaluated.
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There is a growing demand for the development of methodology to evaluate nutrition and dietetic programs.
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This involves planning the intervention and evaluating the outcome.