Appraisal may refer to:
Decision-making
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Appraisal (decision analysis)
A decision model in decision theory is the starting point for a decision method within a formal (axiomatic) system. Decision models contain at least one action axiom.
An action is in the form "IF is true, THEN do ". An action axiom tests a condi ...
, a decision method
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Archival appraisal
In archival science and archive administration, appraisal is a process usually conducted by members of the record-holding institution (often professional archivists) in which a body of records is examined to determine its value for that institutio ...
, process for determining which records need to be kept, and for how long
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Project appraisal Project appraisal is the process of assessing, in a structured way, the case for proceeding with a project or proposal, or the project's viability. It often involves comparing various options, using economic appraisal or some other decision analysis ...
, comparing options to deliver an objective
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Economic appraisal
Economic appraisal is a type of decision method applied to a project, programme or policy that takes into account a wide range of costs and benefits, denominated in monetary terms or for which a monetary equivalent can be estimated. Economic appra ...
, an appraisal based on comparison of monetary equivalents
Property valuation
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Real estate appraisal
Real estate appraisal, property valuation or land valuation is the process of developing an opinion of value for real property (usually market value). Real estate transactions often require appraisals because they occur infrequently and every pro ...
, the practice of determining the value of real property
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Business valuation Business valuation is a process and a set of procedures used to estimate the economic value of an owner's interest in a business. Here various valuation techniques are used by financial market participants to determine the price they are willing t ...
, the process of determining the value of businesses
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Art valuation
Art valuation, an art-specific subset of Valuation (finance), financial valuation, is the process of estimating the market value of Work of art, works of art. As such, it is more of a financial rather than an aesthetics, aesthetic concern, ...
, the process of determining the value of works of art
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Domain appraisal, the act of evaluating the worth of a specific domain name
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Archival appraisal
In archival science and archive administration, appraisal is a process usually conducted by members of the record-holding institution (often professional archivists) in which a body of records is examined to determine its value for that institutio ...
, the appraisal of archival collections in libraries
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Appraisal value
In finance, valuation is the process of determining the present value (PV) of an asset. In a business context, it is often the hypothetical price that a third party would pay for a given asset. Valuations can be done on assets (for example, inve ...
, the value of a company based on a projection of future cash flow
Other uses
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Appraisal (discourse analysis) In Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), appraisal refers to the ways that writers or speakers express approval or disapproval for things, people, behaviour or ideas. Language users build relationships with their interlocutors by expressing such p ...
, the ways that writers or speakers express approval or disapproval for things or ideas
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Appraisal theory Appraisal theory is the theory in psychology that emotions are extracted from our evaluations (appraisals or estimates) of events that cause specific reactions in different people. Essentially, our appraisal of a situation causes an emotional, or af ...
, a psychological theory of emotion and cognition
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Appraisal Institute
The Appraisal Institute (AI), headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, is an international association of professional real estate appraisers. It was founded in January 1991 when the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers (AIREA) and the Society ...
, an international association of professional real estate appraisers
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Performance appraisal
A performance appraisal, also referred to as a performance review, performance evaluation,Muchinsky, P. M. (2012). ''Psychology Applied to Work'' (10th ed.). Summerfield, NC: Hypergraphic Press. (career) development discussion, or employee appr ...
, a method to evaluate employee performance
See also
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Appraiser
An appraiser (from Latin ''appretiare'', "to value"), is a person that develops an opinion of the market value or other value of a product, most notably real estate.
The current definition of "appraiser" according to the Uniform Standards of Prof ...
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Evaluation (disambiguation)
Evaluation is the process of judging something or someone based on a set of standards.
Evaluation may also refer to:
Measurement or appraisal
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** Competency evaluation (language), a means for teachers to determine the ability of th ...
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