Quotes About Assessment

In the end, educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can't accurately do that, how can we tell if we're getting better or worse? Some

I didn't think I was right for 'Cabaret'.

Finding the one right candidate in a group is hard, and companies don't have much time to figure out exactly which questions can help them tell similar-seeming candidates apart.

I don't have great thoughts about a lot of Republican candidates.

You have to be careful about measuring the quality of education by the sheer number of dollars that you put into it.

I always look at people and think how I would cast them.

These race cars are dangerous and you don't put someone in one unless you are 100 per cent certain that they can do what they need to do and be safe in the car.

I have to know the characteristics of the players. I have to adapt myself to the characteristics of the championship and the players. Now I study my players.

I support high academic standards. Period.

I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

Even though I'd been invited to the combine, I didn't test particularly well. That didn't really surprise me, I had I no expectation that I'd shock people with an insane 40 time. But I knew things weren't looking good when I started getting asked a lot of questions about the size of my hands.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

I don't believe in rankings. Sometimes the rankings surprise me. I don't think it's fair to judge a team on the basis of rankings.

I wouldn't be surprised if I knocked Ricky Hatton out. It's something that people are going to read and think I'm ridiculous, but if you look beyond what you see with naked eye, every time he gets hit clean, he's hurt.

It surprises me that more people don't take a look in the mirror a little more often and assess their own relationships.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

He looked me up and down, brilliant black eyes sweeping slowly and the silky fringe of long eyelashes following them.

He leaned his back against the workbench and looked me over without haste, without interest, as if he was looking at a slab of cold meat. Perhaps he thought of people that way.

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

none of us will have forgotten that lesson. What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them: education in the true sense, very different from today's assessment-mad exam culture.

If superior creatures from space ever visit earth, the first question they will ask, in order to assess the level of our civilization, is: 'Have they discovered evolution yet?

Cognitive sorting continues from the time that students enter college to the time they get a degree

juries should ask not Is he guilty? but rather Is he dangerous?

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.