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Evaluation vs Experimentation - What's the difference?

evaluation | experimentation |

As nouns the difference between evaluation and experimentation

is that evaluation is assessment while experimentation is experimentation.

evaluation

English

Noun

(wikipedia evaluation) (en noun)
  • An assessment, such as an annual personnel performance review used as the basis for a salary increase or bonus, or a summary of a particular situation.
  • (mathematics) A completion of a mathematical operation; a valuation.
  • (computing, programming) Determination of the value of a variable or expression.

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    See also

    * evaluate * revaluation * valuation

    experimentation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
  • (sciences) A set of actions and observations, performed to verify or falsify a hypothesis or to research a causal relationship between phenomena.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Robert M. Pringle , title=How to Be Manipulative , volume=100, issue=1, page=31 , magazine= citation , passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation . Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}