The phrase "assess it against" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when evaluating something in relation to a specific standard, criteria, or benchmark.
Example: "We need to assess it against the industry standards to ensure compliance."
Alternatives: "evaluate it in relation to" or "compare it with".
"Schools are seeing the same information and assessing it against their own situations and then making decisions, rather than following some other school's example," Mr. Johnson said.
If every time you heard something you assessed it against everything you already knew, you'd still be thinking about breakfast at supper-time.
Unmoved by Trump's rhetoric, the authors of the forthcoming "Searching for Justice Scalia" looked at each of his pre-nominees' judicial record and assessed it against variables that could be attributed to the late justice, who died in February and whose seat has remained vacant.
We collected data in Table 1 and assessed it against guidelines [ 27] for the identification and management of infants with anaemia and growth faltering.
Each provisional hypothesis was further developed by systematically assessing it against first the positive and then the negative cases in the matrix, and adapting it by incorporating further contextual factors and mechanisms to describe how each overall outcome of shared care developed.
What other governments achieved, or what this one could have?Perhaps the fairest way to assess it is against its own promises and aspirations.
In order to assess its utility, we evaluated it against Gwet's AC1 and compared the results.
But the third is this: how does a service know what its outcomes are; how can it assess itself against benchmarks; how can it improve (or even know whether it needs to improve)?
Madison Square Garden has asked a federal judge to reduce a portion of the $11.6 million in punitive damages a jury assessed against it and its chairman for sexually discriminating against a former Knicks executive.
