self-ratingn.
/ˌsɛlfˈreɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfˈreɪdɪŋ/ΚΠ
1841 Morning Chron. 26 Nov. The time is an awkward one for depriving parishioners of their self-rating power and vesting it in churchwardens, acting under clerical mandate.
1848 M. Loudon Maternal Love II. xxxvii. 319 A county meeting, convened to discuss the subject of local self-rating; with a view to founding efficient Infant, and Industrial Schools.
1864 T. Craddock Peterborough Cathedral 197 The centralising statutes of the government since 1832 have resolved these questions, though there is still left the power of inquest over the precincts and a self-rating privilege.
1893 Aberdeen Jrnl. 3 Mar. 7/5 It appeared to him that if they were going to have Parish Councils it would be an absurd thing to deprive these councils of the power of self-rating.
2. Rating or evaluation of oneself, esp. according to an established scale; (Education) rating of own's own performance or abilities; (Psychology and Sociology) rating of one's own feelings, behaviour, personality traits, etc. (used as a tool to quantify people's perceptions of themselves). Also as a count noun: a rating of this kind.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > [noun] > by oneself
autometry1829
self-rating1878
self-assessment1899
self-evaluation1900
1878 J. D. Bell Great Slighted Fortune xvi. 163 Self-rating has much to do both with self-making and with self-unmaking.
1893 Non-Sectarian Mar. 122 The self-ratings of merit or demerit as made by conscience.
1919 School Rev. 27 469 Self-improvement through self-rating... The cards...are designed to stimulate the pupil or teacher to improve himself by requiring him to rate himself.
1938 G. W. Allport Personality xvi. 444 In self-rating there is a tendency to overestimate those qualities considered desirable and to underestimate those considered undesirable.
1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 623/2 Subjective anxiety is reflected in the self-ratings of the patients.
1987 Jrnl. Sex Res. 23 369 The sexual preference of the subjects was determined by their self-rating on the Kinsey scale for sexual preference.
2012 Higher Educ. 63 187 Trainees' self-rating of particular skills and industry's rating of the trainees were also examined.
Compounds
General attributive (in sense 2), as self-rating scale, self-rating questionnaire, etc.
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1916 Jrnl. Educ. (Univ. of Boston School of Educ.) 10 Feb. 163/3 A self-rating efficiency scale for teachers.
1931 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 37 417 The self-rating method in which the subjects rate themselves with reference to an attitude or opinion.
1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 696/1 Like all self-rating questionnaires it suffers from the obvious defect that its completion is left entirely to the individual interpretation of the subject.
1982 TESOL Q. 16 457 The multiple-choice and self-rating tests were objectively scored.
2004 W. K. Silverman & B. Lopez in M. Hersen Psychol. Assessment in Clin. Pract. xi. 291 The results from the interviews, self-rating scales, and behavioral observation task were compiled.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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