Validation vs. Evaluation — What's the Difference?

To establish the soundness, accuracy, or legitimacy of

Evaluation is a systematic determination of a subject's merit, worth and significance, using criteria governed by a set of standards. It can assist an organization, program, design, project or any other intervention or initiative to assess any aim, realisable concept/proposal, or any alternative, to help in decision-making; or to ascertain the degree of achievement or value in regard to the aim and objectives and results of any such action that has been completed.

To declare or make legally valid

The making of a judgement about the amount, number, or value of something; assessment

To mark with an indication of official sanction

To ascertain or fix the value or amount of

The act of validating something.

To determine the importance, effectiveness, or worth of; assess

Something, such as a certificate, that validates something; attestation, authentication, confirmation, proof or verification.

(Mathematics) To calculate the numerical value of; express numerically.

The process whereby others confirm the validity of one's emotions.

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.

(US) The process of identifying a new prisoner's gang affiliation.

(mathematics) A completion of a mathematical operation; a valuation.

The act of giving validity.

Determination of the value of a variable or expression.

The act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something

Valuation; appraisement.

The cognitive process of establishing a valid proof

Act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of

An appraisal of the value of something;