Background and Status

Abstract

People evaluate other people’s appearances, behaviors, and performances. For examples, teachers evaluate students, students evaluate teachers, teachers may evaluate other teachers, and students may even evaluate each other. But evaluation is also applied by people to any “objects” that are somehow subject to being experienced or used. The objects may vary greatly, both in the ways in which they were created and in the characteristics that resulted. They may include the home in which one lives, the car that one drives, the movie that one watches, the zoo that one visits, the job that one holds, and, yes, the computer that one uses on the job or at home.