As we figure out how to hear evaluation, it’s helpful to break evaluation itself down into three constituent parts: assessment, consequences, and judgment. Assessment ranks you. It tells you where you stand. At the track meet your assessment is clear: You ran the mile in five minutes, nineteen seconds, placing you fourth in the forty- to forty-five age group. Consequences are about the real-world outcomes that result from the assessment: Based on the assessment, what, if anything, is going to happen? As a result of your race time, you qualify for the regionals, but do not yet qualify for the
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