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