Assessment may refer to:

Healthcare

* Health assessment, identifies needs of the patient and how those needs will be addressed * Nursing assessment, gathering information about a patient's physiological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual status * Psychiatric assessment, gathering information about a person in a psychiatric or mental health service * Psychological assessment, examination of a person's mental health by a professional such as a psychologist

Other uses

* ''Assessment'' (journal) (ASMNT), a psychology journal * Educational assessment, documenting knowledge, skills, aptitudes, and beliefs *

Environmental impact assessment Environmental Impact assessment (EIA) is the assessment of the environmental consequences of a plan, policy, program, or actual projects prior to the decision to move forward with the proposed action. In this context, the term "environmental imp ...

, assessment of environmental consequences of a plan *

Library assessment Library assessment is a process undertaken by libraries to learn about the needs of users (and non-users) and to evaluate how well they support these needs, in order to improve library facilities, services and resources. In many libraries successful ...

, to learn about the needs of patrons * Risk assessment, determining value of risk related to a concrete situation and a recognized threat *

Survey data collection With the application of probability sampling in the 1930s, surveys became a standard tool for empirical research in social sciences, marketing, and official statistics. The methods involved in survey data collection are any of a number of ways in ...

, marketing assessments *

Tax assessment Tax assessment, or assessment, is the job of determining the value, and sometimes determining the use, of property, usually to calculate a property tax. This is usually done by an office called the assessor or tax assessor. Governments need to ...

, determining amounts to be paid or assessed for tax or insurance purposes *

Vulnerability assessment A vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritizing (or ranking) the vulnerabilities in a system. Examples of systems for which vulnerability assessments are performed include, but are not limited to, informatio ...

, identifying, quantifying, and ranking vulnerabilities in a system *

Writing assessment Writing assessment refers to an area of study that contains theories and practices that guide the evaluation of a writer's performance or potential through a writing task. Writing assessment can be considered a combination of scholarship from compos ...

, examining practices, technologies, and process of using writing to assess performance and potential

Healthcare

Other uses

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