What is the outcome of an evaluation?

Question

As I understand an evaluation is the process. But what is the outcome?

Or is evaluation both, the process and the outcome?

Answer 1

Yes, it is used to refer to both the process and the outcome.

Answer 2

Treating "the process" in your question as the thing that's being evaluated, I would answer as follows.

Evaluations can be formative or summative.
- A formative evaluation is done early in the process and can impact the later outcomes of the process.
- A summative evaluation is done at the end of the process to determine what the results of the process were. This sense of evaluation is sometimes used synonymously with output, the measurable results of an outcome.

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Treating "the process" instead to mean "the act of evaluating," the answer to your question is:

An evaluation can be either the process of evaluating something...
      He was busy with the evaluation of his students.
...or it can be the result of this process.
      The student read the evaluation his teacher gave him.