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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
self-assessment
noun
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▪ Self-assessment is a key feature of the module and students should set targets for themselves based on their initial self-assessment.
▪ A man with his knowledge, humour and candid self-assessment must make an excellent instructor.
▪ By providing the means of sensitive self-assessment it will encourage continuous self-monitoring and progress.
▪ General information Major areas of interest at work and leisure, self-assessment of strengths and weaknesses, ambitions.
▪ His plans to introduce income tax self-assessment and to reduce the audit burden were welcomed last night by small business organisations.
▪ In the music and drama departments visited the approach to this kind of informal self-assessment tended to be more verbal and group-based.
▪ This teacher obviously felt that self-assessment helped her children to have a clearer idea of what marks and grades referred to.
▪ To the extent that it avoids medical bureaucracy and so on, it is an improvement, but self-assessment is a radical change.
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Self-assessment

In social psychology, self-assessment is the process of looking at oneself in order to assess aspects that are important to one's identity. It is one of the motives that drive self-evaluation, along with self-verification and self-enhancement. Sedikides (1993) suggests that the self-assessment motive will prompt people to seek information to confirm their uncertain self-concept rather than their certain self-concept and at the same time people use self-assessment to enhance their certainty of their own self-knowledge. However, the self-assessment motive could be seen as quite different from the other two self-evaluation motives. Unlike the other two motives through self-assessment people are interested in the accuracy of their current self view, rather than improving their self-view. This makes self-assessment the only self-evaluative motive that may cause a person's self-esteem to be damaged.

Self-assessment (disambiguation)

Self assessment may refer to:

  • Self assessment, One of the self-evaluation motives studied in social psychology
  • A form of educational assessment in which students make judgements about their own work
  • A process in which an organization reviews its activities and results against the EFQM Excellence Model
  • A kind of tax form used in the United Kingdom

Usage examples of "self-assessment".

The error bar is a pervasive, visible self-assessment of the reliability of our knowledge.