appraise vs assess

English translation: staff appraisal / staff assessment

21:55 Sep 4, 2003

English language (monolingual) [PRO]
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English term or phrase: appraise vs assess

In the sentence:
"Appraise and assess individual team members."

I have to translate this sentence into French, but French doesn't like pleonasms. I was just curious and wanted to ask an English speaker purely on the linguistical level, why is it necessary (or how come that it is acceptable) to put "Appraise and assess" not only in the same sentence but next to each other. Does this emphasizes the fact of "evaluating" or does it imply something more than simple "evaluation"?

Said Kaljanac a.k.a. SARAJ KudoZ activity Questions: 71 (4 open) (2 without valid answers) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 698 Belgium
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Selected answer:staff appraisal / staff assessment

Explanation:
The link below gives detailed forms (pdf) files that you could look at, to see the differences between staff appraisals and staff assessments.

Hope this helps!

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jerrie
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:11

Grading comment

Thanks to all of you, but Jerrie provided a good link :-)
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED

5 +6

Well,

yolanda Speece

Needlessly Redundant

Fuad Yahya

appraise is to evaluate in quality and other features and to assess is an approximation/estimation.

Harinder Dhillon

staff appraisal / staff assessment

jerrie

appraise vs assess

Wenke Geddert

Answers

2 mins confidence:

Needlessly Redundant

Explanation:
In this kind of context, one word would suffice. The English should have been edited before having it translated.

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Note added at 2003-09-05 03:22:13 (GMT)
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In other contexts, one can find varying shades of meanings suitable for a variety of usages, but in this particular instance, there is no rational justification for using the two words in this fashion.

Fuad Yahya
Native speaker of:

Arabic,

English
PRO pts in pair: 893

8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

Well,

Explanation:
appraise looks at the worth of the team member or the team itself.
is it necessary to have this person or these people in this area? are we getting the most out of them working on this particular item of discussion?

assess views the performance of the team or its members.
this determines how well the person or team does working under a specific capacity or position.
Do they work well as a team? do we need to switch out persons? does this person work better in another team? is switching them out to another team seem necessary or even feasible?

Hope this helps

yolanda Speece
Local time: 06:11
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 31

1 hr confidence:

appraise is to evaluate in quality and other features and to assess is an approximation/estimation.

Explanation:
To appraise - is in official capacity and to assess- is an approximation.

Harinder Dhillon
Local time: 06:11
Native speaker of:

Hindi,

Punjabi

9 hrs confidence:

staff appraisal / staff assessment

Explanation:
The link below gives detailed forms (pdf) files that you could look at, to see the differences between staff appraisals and staff assessments.

Hope this helps!

Reference: http://www.uwi.edu/staff.html

jerrie
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:11
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 773

Grading comment

Thanks to all of you, but Jerrie provided a good link :-)

10 hrs confidence:

appraise vs assess

Explanation:
To appraise: This relates to the individual's performance appraisal where his / her achievements, targets, goals, etc. are discussed.

To assess: in terms of assess his / her development needs for the future in order to enable them to meet next year's targets.

This would be my interpretation and how I used them in my previous HR role.

Wenke Geddert
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:11
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in pair: 12

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