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Mark et al. (2006) distinguish everyday informal evaluation (How good was breakfast at the restaurant? How did the meeting with the client go?) from systematic evaluation, which they define as:

a social and politicized practice that nonetheless aspires to some position of impartiality or fairness, so that evaluation can contribute meaningfully to the well-being of people in that specific context and beyond. (Mark et al. 2006: 5–6)

They identify three groups of evaluation definitions which concentrate on the purpose of evaluation, the methods used, and the importance of judgements of value in evaluation. We will consider each of these in turn.