formal assessment

collocation in English

meaningsofformalandassessment

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withassessment.
formal
adjective
uk
/ˈfɔː.məl/
us
/ˈfɔːr.məl/
public ...
See more atformal
assessment
noun[C or U]
uk
/əˈses.mənt/
us
/əˈses.mənt/
the act of judging or deciding the amount, value, quality, or importance of something, or the judgment or decision that ...
See more atassessment

(Definition offormalandassessmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofformal assessment

These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Severe aphasia may makeformalassessmentof mood and cognitive impairment impossible.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The growing number of tools forformalassessmentare not often crafted musically and do not always re-ect a really musical perspective.
From theCambridge English Corpus
There needs to be more attention paid toformalassessmentof adverse cognitive effects in clinical drug trials, especially in those groups at particular risk.
From theCambridge English Corpus
We used an incremental approach, based onformalassessmentof full papers whose abstracts suggested that the statistical techniques had not been identified previously.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It provides a basis for moreformalassessmentof the performance of fourth hurdle systems, against their declared objectives, and by international benchmarking.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Noformalassessmentof evidence on efficacy (and effectiveness) or of evidence on cost-effectiveness has been carried out.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These decisions are not generally based on aformalassessmentprocess.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The data were naturalistic and consisted of oral presentations the students were presenting as part of theirformalassessment.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These decisions were not based on aformalassessmentbut seemed to be motivated primarily by fiscal concerns.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This analysis of uncertainty can be used in theformalassessmentof the value of undertaking further research (9).
From theCambridge English Corpus
This differed from the 'official' panel, which followed the traditional practice of marking only the individual underformalassessment.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Noformalassessmentof methodological quality was done; however, the limitations and transparency (in terms of fulfilling the data extraction form items) of each study were noted.
From theCambridge English Corpus
To date, there has been noformalassessmentor description of the process of managed entry, in particular, and how it relates to the introduction of drugs in general.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In the nursery school noformalassessmentof the children's academic ability had been made and so the sample was determined purely by the children's willingness to participate.
From theCambridge English Corpus
However, the effect of other characteristics, such as theformalassessmentand incorporation of trial quality and the inclusion of non-peer-reviewed publications, is less clear (2;13;30).
From theCambridge English Corpus
Horizon scanning is now accepted as an important tool in the selection of topics forformalassessment, but there are risks in this approach.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Noformalassessmenthas been made of the savings in cost and time which might result from appointing a higher proportion of stipendiary magistrates.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
A further amount of tax estimated at about £100,000 was not the subject offormalassessment.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
There has been noformalassessment; it would be difficult to separate the effects of this action from other influences on the market.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Want to learn more?
Go to the definition offormal
Go to the definition ofassessment
See other collocations withassessment