Examples of assess in the following topics:
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- Initial assessment, also referred to as pre-assessment or diagnostic assessment, is conducted prior to instruction or intervention to establish a baseline from which an individual's growth can be measured.
- Formative assessment is generally carried out throughout a course or project.
- Formative assessment, also referred to as "educative assessment," is used to aid learning.
- Formative assessments can take the form of diagnostic, standardized tests.
- Summative assessment is generally carried out at the end of a course, project or speech.
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- The evaluating stage is the listening stage during which the listener critically assesses the information she's received from the speaker.
- This stage of the listening process is the one during which the listener assesses the information she's received, both qualitatively and quantitatively.
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- Listening is an active process by which we make sense of, assess, and respond to what we hear.
- Listening is an active process by which we make sense of, assess, and respond to what we hear.
- Basically, an effective listener must hear and identify the speech sounds directed toward them, understand the message of those sounds, critically evaluate or assess that message, remember what's been said, and respond (either verbally or nonverbally) to information they've received.
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- In other words, critical thinking is the process by which people qualitatively and quantitatively assess the information they have accumulated, and how they in turn use that information to solve problems and forge new patterns of understanding.
- Critical thinking clarifies goals, examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, accomplishes actions, and assesses conclusions.
- People can use critical thinking skills to understand, interpret, and assess what they hear in order to formulate appropriate reactions or responses.
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- For example, speakers can assess the demographics of her audience.
- Speakers assess the audience's attitude - a positive or negative evaluation of people, objects, event, activities, or ideas - toward a specific topic or purpose.
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- In debating terms, emotional appeals are often effective as a rhetorical device, but are generally considered naive or dishonest as a logical argument, since they often appeal to the prejudices of listeners rather than offer a sober assessment of a situation.
- Even if the pictures of animal testing put out by PETA are 50 years out of date, they still provoke an emotional response rather than a reasoned one when trying to assess cruelty in animal testing.
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- Discovering knowledgeability, the state or condition of possessing knowledge, involves careful assessment of the audience by the speaker prior to, during, and after the speech.
- However, you may want to "pre-assess" your audience to see how much they know so that you can adjust your content to the level of understanding.
- You may assess understanding with a simple question and answer session or you may find it useful to use an Audience Response System at different points in the speech to ask the audience short, quick questions to see where they are at that point.
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- Assessing the ways in which your audience will come to their own conclusions about your material will influence all the other pathways of critical thinking about your speech.
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- They serve to assess previous actions and outline future actions.
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- Indicate the factors speakers should keep in mind when assessing their audience