evaluative comments
collocation in Englishmeaningsofevaluativeandcomment
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evaluative
adjective
uk/ɪˈvæl.ju.ə.tɪv/us/ɪˈvæl.ju.eɪ.t̬ɪv/
involving judging or calculating the quality, importance, amount, or value ...
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comment
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈkɒm.ent/us/ˈkɑː.ment/
something that you say or write that expresses ...
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The children were introduced to the three types of evaluative comments prior to their second telling of the story.
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Thus, it appears that for school-age children there may be a tension between telling a coherent story and including specific evaluative comments.
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Of course making evaluative comments about a song typically employs what we think of as musical judgements, while evaluations of autobiographies highlight literary judgements.
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The outcomes are given below with brief evaluative comments, and the main response, in the concluding section that follows.
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On the ability to provide evaluative comments : further explorations of children's narrative competencies.
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These pauses may have enhanced the children's inclusion of evaluative comments at the expense of their maintenance of an overall sense of the narrative.
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The data suggest that evaluative comments require an affective engagement with the music.
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Therefore, the intervention did not enable children in the late talker group to "catch up" to the comparison peers in terms of their inclusion of evaluative comments.
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Most of their comments are still largely descriptive but the indication here is that if the teacher probed further, these girls are capable of deeper evaluative comments in their appraising.
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As relocations from another facility do not directly involve evaluative comments on current care, there was no reason for staff to be selective on those grounds.
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Another area with a growing impact on feedback practices is the development of sophisticated software capable of scanning student texts and generating immediate evaluative comments on them.
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