Quotes About Assessment

In short, the scale encouraged a response set of positive answers. Instead of identifying genuine authoritarians, perhaps the F scale simply singled out some very agreeable persons without strong opinions.

Children march in lockstep through grades with their age peers, regardless of their capabilities.

From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.

You know what he thinks of Cowper and Scott;

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently bu what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

We tend to think that if a student is using a computer as part of an activity, then it's automatically a good activity. After all, they're using technology! But when we look at the results of that time spent at the computer, we really should be asking ourselves, how did this use of technology improve student learning?

Today, when our just-right targets are more conceptual, teachers need to employ thinking skills to unravel information that the student has organized and retained. Further, informal self-assessment and observation techniques add to the body of evidence necessary for the teacher to truly know a student's level of performance and for the student to know his or her own level of performance in order to put forth the effort to improve.

Riley decided the man was physically a ten, but intellectually he was a certifiable fruit basket.

And I don't think we're completely incompetent. I think we're closer to eighty percent incompetent.

Comedy is a difficult thing for a critic, as, unlike all other art-forms, it has an inbuilt success-o-meter: laughter. Therefore, there's no real need for critics.

If you think about it, critics are an unnecessary life-form on the planet Earth, and here's why: because it's a job without credentials. You don't have to go to school.

We do take seriously our obligation to assess whether our reforms are achieving their desired effects without imposing unnecessary burden.

Sometimes you don't quite realise what you have achieved until you look back.

The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing them is capable of progressing rapidly, as indeed it does. In the absence of any absolutely sensational discovery in prehistory, there is an up-to-date and scientific manner of understanding man, which is solidly based on palaeontology.

I like to rate myself as a performer upfront, both in films as well as in television.

The amygdala is like a point guard in the emotional part of your middle brain. When it is overwhelmed, it hijacks you away from being able to access your upper rational brain and think and assess what to do. It essentially disables your ability to think.

To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.

If reviewers don't mention your work, it's probably better than if they do.

Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.

Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?

It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.

Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.

You should just evaluate the work and make your judgments accordingly. That's the way you do it in life and every other subject.

If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.