Please help, what is 'evaluative vocabulary'

[freshstart24]

DD has been set homework due in tomorrow to list some 'evaluative vocabulary'. She's in year 7.

She has examples of 'evaluative vocabulary' which are: subtle, pivotal, provocative, crucial.

Google has not helped other than to suggest that it means words to express positive and negative feelings and judgements. This doesn't seem to fit with the example words.

Can anyone help please?

If they are evaluating English homework (which I assume it is)

It would be Improvements, rearrange, add, remove

(Example add adjectives, improve spelling, remove poor language)

Thank you greentulips. Unfortunately, that isn't they've been asked to do. They have to find 20 evaluative words in a chapter of their reading book. We can't figure out what an evaluative word is!!

Can you post a photo of a paragraph or type it out? It would be easier to show you with your example in front of us.

I'd take that to mean that they read the passage and then identify a word that the believe to be "pivotal" to the plot or "provocative" etc - does that make sense?

Wasn't covered in class? What did they do in the class in which the homework was set?

Actually no just re read your post - looks like they are looking for words which would be used to evaluate so you would evaluate a passage as provocative or crucial - so similar words like important, positive, unhelpful? Would that work in the context?

I would interpret this as adjectives that convey a view of the value of the noun, I think. So using your example word, "a pivotal meeting" because it tells you the writer's opinion was that it was very important, but not "a quick meeting" because "quick" doesn't tell you anything other than the time it took. Not my greatest example there, sorry.

From google;

Positive or negative language that judges the worth of something. It includes language to express feelings and opinions, to make judgments about aspects of people such as their behaviour, and to assess quality of objects such as literary works. Evaluations can be made explicit (for example, through the use of adjectives as in: ‘she’s a lovely girl’, ‘he’s an awful man’, or ‘how wonderful!’), however, they can be left implicit (for example, ‘he dropped the ball when he was tackled’, or ‘Mary put her arm round the child while she wept’).

I have no idea, but based on those examples I'd look for adjectives that are more complex than usual. Like 'useful' or 'unexpected' (examples from a book next to me) rather than loud or short or green. PPs sound much smarter than me though, go with what they're saying

I'm a smart arse language nerd and I would have to Google that expression.
I guess it has been bandied about in her lesson already but if she's not up for it, you aren't going to get any clues from her.
I'd google it. Then wing it.

We need to see the text!

Do you have a picture of the homework or not? We need more information.

Thank you for all of the helpful posts. The question is to list 20 examples of evaluative vocabulary from a chapter of DD's reading book (30 pages).

Examples of evaluative vocabulary are given as in my OP.

Hope that clarifies things a little. DD insists that emotive vocabulary was not discussed at school .

DD insists that emotive vocabulary was not discussed at school

What did the teacher talk about in the lesson? Can dd describe what the lesson was about?

DD has been studying and appraising the set text in her last few lessons. I decided to email her teacher, who responded impressively swiftly and is going to call me later today.