assessment vs sorting

assessment and sorting both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
assessment	Yes	No	No	No
sorting	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sorting is a hypernym of assessment; that is, sorting is a word with a broader meaning than assessment:

assessment: the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth
sorting: the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories

Other hypernyms of assessment include categorisation, categorization, classification.

assessment (noun)	sorting (noun)
the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event	grouping by class or kind or size
the market value set on assets	the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth	an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
an amount determined as payable