(education) A disposition for purposeful thinking and acting guided by criteria that are considered to be contextually appropriate and that are expected to result in positive outcomes related to the purpose.
“Now I know I might sound like a whiner or a criticaster, but some of you people don't seem to understand that he has only SEVEN matches left to prove himself worthy.”
“Thus, the attribution behaviors of the companies that depend on their expectancies and purchase criticalities can also be examined in the context of failures.”
“In order to define relative criticalities in categories 1 through 4 of the first-pass model, subjective rankings obtained from survey questionnaires are used.”