How to say "evaluation" in Japanese

• 評価ひょうかJLPT N3approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbThe all-purpose word for evaluation and assessment: judging the quality, value or performance of work, people, methods or things, and also the result of such judgement.
  あなたはどのようにして学生がくせいを評価ひょうかしますか。↗

  How do you assess your students?
• 品定めしなさだめCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbSizing up and judging worth, often of a person; it tends to carry a scrutinizing, critical or gossipy nuance, so it is rarely a neutral way to say evaluation.
  次つぎには、主賓しゅひんがそれらを開ひらき、品定しなさだめをするのである。↗

  Then the guest of honor opens them and expresses his or her appreciation.
• 値打ちねうちJLPT N1approx.Common
  nounEssentially the worth or value of something rather than the act of judging it; as a way to express evaluation as an act it is marginal, and 評価 is the word you want.
• 鑑識かんしきCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbExpert appraisal: a trained specialist's judgement of the authenticity, quality or value of art objects or antiques; not the general word for evaluating work, people or performance.

Choose 評価 for evaluation in general; 「品定め」 for sizing up someone's worth, often critically; 「値打ち」 is chiefly the worth itself rather than the act; 鑑識 is expert appraisal of authenticity, as of antiques.

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• 評価ひょうかvaluation
• 品定めしなさだめevaluation
• 考課こうかevaluation
• エバリュエーションevaluation
• 値踏みねぶみappraisal
• 評定ひょうていassessment
• 値打ちねうちestimation
• 鑑識かんしきappraisal (e.g. of an antique)