Assessment

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Assessment is a process for describing a particular piece of reality in aim to fulfil a certain information need in a decision-making situation. The word assessment can also mean the end product of this process, i.e. some kind of assessment report. Often it is clear from the context whether assessment means the doing of the report or the report itself. Methodologically, these are two different objects, called the assessment process and the assessment product, respectively.

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An assessment has the following properties:

• An assessment product is a description of a certain piece of reality R↻
• The descriptions are produced according to the use purposes of the product
• The assessment product is a description of all the relevant phenomena in relation to the chosen indicators (i.e. outcomes of special interest) and their relations as a causal network
• The assessment product combines value judgements with the descriptions of physical phenomena
• The basic building block of the causal description is a variable, i.e. everything in the causal network is described as variables.
• All variables in a causal network description must be causally related to the indicators of the assessment.

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<section begin=glossary />

Assessment is a process for describing a particular piece of reality in aim to fulfil a certain information need in a decision-making situation. The word assessment can also mean the end product of this process, i.e. some kind of assessment report. Often it is clear from the context whether assessment means the doing of the report or the report itself. Methodologically, these are two different objects, called the assessment process and the assessment product, respectively.

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An assessment has the following properties:

• An assessment product is a description of a certain piece of reality R↻
• The descriptions are produced according to the use purposes of the product
• The assessment product is a description of all the relevant phenomena in relation to the chosen indicators (i.e. outcomes of special interest) and their relations as a causal network
• The assessment product combines value judgements with the descriptions of physical phenomena
• The basic building block of the causal description is a variable, i.e. everything in the causal network is described as variables.
• All variables in a causal network description must be causally related to the indicators of the assessment.

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