The study aims to show the main development stages of House's model to translation quality assessment (TQA). House's attempts to develop a model for translation through her previous studies are presented in this study. Her works started with her original model in 1977 and updated in 1981, 1997, and 2015. The main goal of House's model is to provide translation quality assessment and translation criticism with a scientifically-based function and also to promote TQA as an established field of study and research in translation science. This piece of work is of importance for those who want to see how House's model revised and developed to arrive at the most appropriate criteria for (TQA).