What's the difference between assessor and valuer?
Assessor
Definition:
(v.) One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors.
(v.) One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an assistant and adviser; an associate in office.
(v.) One appointed to assess persons or property for the purpose of taxation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Based on our work on the EIA and assessors’ own reports on the 2010 REF pilot , assessment panels are able to account for factors such as the quality of evidence, context and situation in which the impact was occurring – and even the quality of the writing – to differentiate between, and grade, case studies.
(2) The two groups of actors in this new development--the risk assessors and the strain designers--need the same platform of understanding from the field of microbial ecology, and a number of specific areas which may now be approached by modern technology deserve particular attention.
(3) Over a 4 month period both groups were visited three times by an independent assessor who rated them on service provision and functional independence.
(4) We believe that ward-based assessors are integral to good nurse education.
(5) Comparison of these findings with the results yielded by the judgement of the same items by naive listeners indicated broad agreement between the two categories of assessors.
(6) A retrospective review of 600 obstetric case-notes, covering the years 1978 to 1984, was performed independently by two assessors.
(7) Seven hypnosis and 17 control patients were withdrawn as treatment failures, the difference between the two groups being statistically significant.As judged by analyses based on the daily "score" of wheezing recorded in patients' diaries, by the number of times bronchodilators were used, and by independent clinical assessors, both treatment groups showed some improvement Among men the assessments of wheezing score and use of bronchodilators showed similar improvement in the two treatment groups; among women, however, those treated by hypnosis showed improvement similar to that observed in the men, but those given breathing exercises made much less progress, the difference between the two treatment groups reaching statistical significance.
(8) The Department for Communities and Local Government has since said it has enough energy assessors to produce the packs and energy performance certificates (EPCs) so they will be rolled out to three-bedroom homes from September 10.
(9) Hence a modified version of the study is being continued to see whether yearly audit by regional assessors is a feasible and practical way of monitoring trends in perinatal mortality.
(10) Why didn't HMG (because it was the government who appointed his "expert assessors" for him) put at least one tabloid adviser at his side to guide deliberations?
(11) Assessor 1 considered that 20% and assessor 2 15%, of those studied could have been managed without admission.
(12) But he still faces a yearly battle: The hospital must prove its compliance annually to the county board of assessors.
(13) At the end of the test, the computer compiles a report for the assessor to approve; this report is sent to the jobcentre where an adviser makes a final decision on benefit eligibility.
(14) O’Sullivan mentioned his thoughts of suicide on his Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) form, and that should have prompted a call for further medical evidence, but his assessor did not ask him about it.
(15) Lea said that it was, in effect, assuming people were lying to assessors about their condition.
(16) We gained the experience, that this method allows no statement about the assessor's sensory ability at all, but merely fixes his order of precedence in a panel as to his ability to realize sensory differences in the scope of one special problem.
(17) The goal was to provide a rational basis for applying MCMV as a host resistance model for immunotoxicity testing and to provide risk assessors some guidance in relating suppression of NK cell activity to enhanced risk of disease.
(18) In the remaining 18 cases, the assessors did not agree on the need for admission.
(19) In 1966 he was assessor to Lord Mountbatten during his inquiry into prison security – but he harboured a sneaking regard for Ronnie Biggs, the great train robber who escaped from Wandsworth jail in 1965, saying that his flight "added a rare and welcome touch of humour to the history of crime".
(20) The trainer tells trainee assessors: "If it's more than I think 12% or 13%, you will be fed back 'your rate is too high.'"
Valuer
Definition:
(n.) One who values; an appraiser.
Example Sentences:
(1) After an 18-month freedom-of-information battle waged by local residents, the district valuer’s report of Capco’s viability assessment was made public.
(2) Jovan Ssebaggala, 21, and his elder brother Joel, a government land valuer, arrived early to secure front seats.
(3) It comes as a genuine shock, then, that a council has removed one of his paintings instead of calling in the valuers.
(4) The property market is also suffering a fresh downturn, said the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in a report today, with valuers across the UK blaming the decline on anticipated public sector job losses.
(5) The lending criteria of one unnamed major bank, sent to brokers, says the following are excluded: “Studio flats, freehold flats, flats with unacceptable access arrangements (eg rear external staircases), flats converted from former office blocks or flats within blocks where our valuer reports inadequate maintenance of communal areas, ex-local authority or ex-public sector flats that are greater than four storeys high or that have open decking access.” Anecdotally, there is evidence that some lenders are also becoming nervous about expensive one-bedroom flats in London, limiting the maximum mortgage to £500,000.
(6) Steve Hatch, director and valuer at Castles, another north London agent, said the Bank's warning "got the attention it was meant to get and made people think for a moment.
(7) Because you’re basically saying: ‘If everyone else bidding for a similar site gets away with no affordable housing, then that’s the value I’ll use.’ It completely circumvents planning policy.” Such was the case, he says, at Mount Pleasant in north London, where Royal Mail’s valuers contended the £4bn scheme for 700 homes could not possibly meet both Islington and Camden councils’ targets of 50% affordable housing because of the high value of the site to begin.
(8) At the auction house, senior valuer Chris Albury said it was an exceptional collection.
(9) It will provide for compensation to be determined by an independent valuer," said Darling.
(10) Local authority flats outside London are generally not in favour and will be at the discretion of the valuer.
(11) Some surveyors and valuers told the RICS survey they had been staggered by the ferocity of the market downturn since the coalition government's emergency budget in June.
(12) You could also choose to pay back the equity loan early, although the minimum you can repay is the equivalent of 10% of the value of your home – as determined by an independent valuer – at the time you want to make a repayment.
(13) Southwark council commissioned an independent appraisal of this viability assessment from the government’s district valuer service (which was also revealed as part of the disclosure).
(14) Typically property valuation for homes in the £2m plus region can cost around £1,400, according to leading property valuers.
(15) "We will now look at the various valuers and auction houses to see about the best values for the piece.
(16) Once again, the district valuer queried these figures, suggesting a review mechanism be put in place to allow the amount of affordable housing to increase if sales turned out better than predicted.