Classical Evaluation
The encyclopedia defines evaluate as: “To ascertain or fix the value of.” Whether it is a performance appraisal for one’s job, an evaluation of a project, feedback from a colleague, or criticism from a significant other, the feelings evoked by having one’s “value” fixed, ones faults, short-falls, and limitations pointed out, are troubling and unsettling.
In most situations, evaluation carries the burden of “judgment.” Even though most traditional evaluations point out successes as well as failures uncovered in an evaluation process, it seems to be human nature to focus on, if not to obsess about, those things that others declare (or that we ourselves fear) do not measure up to some standard assumed to define “perfection.” ...
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