Assess

1. To estimate the value of a property, especially for property tax purposes. For example, a county may send an assessor to one's house to assess its value and base the property tax one owes on that assessment.

2. To decide the cost of something. For example, an insurance company may assess the damage of a house fire at $120,000 and agree to pay that much toward repairs. Alternatively, the government may assess that one owes $50,000 in income tax based upon one's income the previous year.

Tax Assessment

The determination of how much a person or company owes in taxes. One usually determines one's own tax assessment by declaring one's income and capital gains from the previous year and applying the methodology the government requires to arrive at the tax liability. The government has the right to audit any tax assessment.

assessment

(1) The official valuation of property for tax purposes. (2) A one-time charge made against property owners for each one's pro rata share of the expense of repairs or improvements to be enjoyed by all of them in common,such as a condo association assessment to replace a roof,or a local government assessment to pave a dirt road. (3) Determination of the value of property in a condemnation case.

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Higher Education Assessments is a good basic resource for senior leadership and new and seasoned assessment professionals.

Higher Education Assessments: Leadership Matters

Form 2750 is a waiver form used to extend the SOL on assessment of the trust fund recovery penalty.

Late extension waiver was valid

Assessment: Drop the Five Hundred and bring this car to the 'States now, Mr.

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This assessment of perceptions may impact how pre-service teachers are trained in their teacher preparation programs to work with students with disabilities.

The process of assessment is important to the examination of student, teacher, and program outcomes

D.C.-based James Lee Witt Associates (JLWA) (www.wittassociates.com.) was hired to leverage the work done by the risk assessment team.

Business continuity planning: George Mason University's executive enterprise risk management approach has helped in building responses to "what-if" scenarios

Assessment practices provide foundation for students' academic achievement in the form of scores they attained in written or oral examination.

Teachers' Classroom Assessment Practices: Challenges and Opportunities to Classroom Teachers in Pakistan

Student evaluation in Pakistan is mostly done at present through high stake summative assessments. To our knowledge, no study in Pakistan has analyzed the impact of formative assessment on grades attained in the end of course summative assessment in the subject of pathology.

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT AS A PERFORMANCE PREDICTOR FOR SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT IN UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL STUDENTS: A COMPARATIVE CORELATIONAL ANALYSIS IN THE SUBJECT OF PATHOLOGY

According to Cotton (2005), classroom assessment is such a mechanism that can be utilized to indicate attainment level or mental caliber of a learner.

Comparison between Perception and Use of Alternative Assessment Techniques in Teaching of English at Secondary Level

Pellegrino and Goldman (2008) recommended the way that learning of students can be improved by the classroom assessment. Few researches are conducted on teachers' perception about their assessment practices and assessment skills.

Teachers' Perceptions about the Use of Classroom Assessment Techniques in Elementary and Secondary Schools

Perhaps in the past, the main concern of giving medical college an equal share of assessment was the question of transparency of assessment, leading to the system of 10% and 90% distribution of internal and external assessment respectively.

Measuring Learning of Medical Students through 'Programmatic Assessment'

Learning from the past: What it takes to sustain high-quality assessment systems

Measuring what really matters

Chapter 1, "The Development of Scholarship about Writing Center Assessment" and the 22-page "Annotated Bibliography for Writing Center Assessment," both written by Macauley, help readers reconsider the notions that few writing center assessment sources exist, that existing sources are not very helpful, and that writing center assessment is a new idea.

Schendel, Ellen, and William J. Macauley, Jr. Building Writing Center Assessments That Matter