Meaning & use
process evaluation
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Meanings
nouncountable or uncountable
A study of how a program or activity is carried out, rather than only its final results.
Grammar: Can be countable (a process evaluation) or uncountable (process evaluation is important).
Patterns
- conduct a process evaluation
- process evaluation of something
- process evaluation shows something
The team conducted a process evaluation to see whether the lessons were delivered as planned.
Process evaluation can reveal problems that result numbers alone do not show.
Their process evaluation of the health program found that staff needed more training.
noununcountable
The act of judging the steps or methods used in doing something.
Grammar: Used without a/a when talking about the activity in general.
Patterns
- focus on process evaluation
- use process evaluation
The report focuses on process evaluation rather than final scores.
Good process evaluation helps a company improve its workflow.
Word forms
| plural | process evaluations |
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Common combinations
- conduct a process evaluation
- They conducted a process evaluation of the new reading program.
- process evaluation of
- The process evaluation of the project took three months.
- process evaluation report
- The process evaluation report described each stage.
- process evaluation data
- We collected process evaluation data during the first term.
Synonyms and how they differ
- implementation evaluation
- Very similar, but it emphasizes whether the program was put into practice correctly.
- formative evaluation
- Often used during a program to improve it; process evaluation can also happen after it ends.
Opposites
Word family
- evaluate verb
- To judge the value or quality of something.
- evaluation noun
- A judgment or study of how good or effective something is.
- process noun
- A series of actions taken to achieve a result.
Commonly confused: process evaluation or outcome evaluation?
process evaluation vs outcome evaluation
Outcome evaluation measures final results, such as test scores; process evaluation looks at how the program was delivered.
Practice
A process evaluation mainly asks:
Choose one answer.
Process evaluation focuses on how a program is delivered, not on final results or cost. Option 0 describes an outcome evaluation.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “process evaluation”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.