Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Jan. 2009
It is called evaluation to the dynamic process through which, and indistinctly, a company, organization or institution Academic can know their own performance, especially their achievements and weaknesses and thus reorient proposals or focus on those positive results to make them even more profitable.
Historically, evaluation has emerged as a control tool, so through it the educational establishments not only control the learning of their students, but also allows them to exercise careful control over the task that teachers perform, since they are the ones who ultimately have the enormous responsibility to bring to fruition this crucial issue for progress and evolution of humanity anywhere in the world. That is, contrary to what is believed, that only students are those who are subject to evaluation in a educational institution, teachers are also, since they are actually the key and fundamental piece of the process of education and that ultimately they will end up marking the success or failure of the same.
Although in many cultures and societies the subject of assessment has always been more associated with the student and a number to pass to meet the approval of a certain subject and bye, in the last time and relying on disciplines as the psychology is that it is trying to change this somewhat archaic mentality and that little pays attention to the possibilities and individual characteristics of each person and power in this way address and correct those weak points that may arise in the learning process and thus achieve that the evaluation in addition to giving us a number that allows you to the student or the teacher to pass the grade or to position themselves better in their career, as appropriate, tell us a little more about the weaknesses and the successes that can be given in this process.
Meanwhile and strictly moving away from the educational field where, of course, evaluation has a very strong and permanent presence, in recent decades, it has been It has also become a faithful ally in the commercial and business world, since it is often used to evaluate the performance of employees and in case of being necessary implement the relevant training in order to improve the task that they perform, or, and already going to the search for the long-awaited economic results, an evaluation process referred only to the finance of a company, you can study and, if necessary, choose alternatives that improve the productivity of a business.
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