The phrase "ability to assess whether" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing someone's capacity to evaluate or judge a situation or condition.
Example: "The candidate demonstrated a strong ability to assess whether the proposed solutions would meet the project's requirements."
Alternatives: "capacity to evaluate if" or "skill in determining whether".
However, since the dates and versions of the last update are recorded and made visible for each source, the user has the ability to assess whether the update frequencies for their sources of interest are adequate for their purposes.
However, on the basis that it is better to know than to not know, knowing about the relevant data gives investigators and analysts the ability to assess whether or not a chemical discharge into the environment should be addressed or whether the environment can take care of itself through biodegradation of the chemical.
The ability to assess whether microarray intensity values are predictors of verifiable gene expression facilitates the interpretation of microarray data.
The 1-year of spatially explicit epidemiological data constrained our ability to assess whether the social-ecological factors associated with the spatial distribution of dengue transmission were consistent in time.
However a lack of replicates limits the investigator in terms of their ability to assess whether the observed variation is of biological or technical origin and the extent to which it influences the resulting gene-lists.
We used these two indicators of the toxicity of the CAG250 RNA (held-up wings and loss of climbing ability) to assess whether additional previously defined modifiers of Ataxin-3 protein-based toxicity could affect RNA toxicity.
The methods of selection and abrasion used to locate grains with closed isotopic systems could be worked out only because the uranium lead method has the inherent ability to assess with a single analysis whether or not a closed isotopic system has prevailed.
One's ability to assess the function whether it is political, economic, or social1 of online spoof humor is severely limited without first considering how the actual audience interprets it.
