Quotes About Assessment

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.

Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.

Volunteering's an early and strong indication that you're not suited," he said.

As leaders, we understand that intangibles are important, but we don't have a clue how to measure them.

In Sternin's judgment, all of this analysis was "TBU"—true but useless.

To be clear, it's not so much that you're a brilliant predictor; it's that he's a lousy self-evaluator. We're all lousy self-evaluators.

The pros-and-cons approach is familiar. It is commonsensical. And it is also profoundly flawed.

Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" Ronald Reagan famously posed

What's indisputable is that when we assess our experiences, we don't average our minute-by-minute sensations. Rather, we tend to remember flagship moments: the peaks, the pits, and the transitions.

human-scale principle allows us to bring our intuition to bear in assessing whether the content of a message is credible.

Tried to assess the situation.

The borderline's children are preoccupied with what researchers call "risk assessment"—with determining the nature of their mother's state of mind from one moment to the next. It is an unconscious and involuntary process, like breathing. They do not realize they are doing it.

I have at least three virtues. How many have you got?

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

She never was able to surrender a feeling without a review of its peaks and low points.

I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.

Confidence spark If you're feeling shaky about taking an action that could prove risky, use this exercise to determine if the action is what I call a best bet, a smart risk worth taking. First, analyze the pros and cons. Say you're offered a job working for a start-up company. How many pluses and minuses can you list? Which do you have more of? Second,

this gives me distance from the remark. I acknowledge the person, let her know I need time to digest it, and tell her I'll get back to her shortly. I then assess what I've heard to determine what is true about it and what isn't. If I feel the need, I talk it out with a trusted friend. Here is the method Andrea Zintz, career coach

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Most of the present acute troubles of the world arise out of taking on new ideas without first carefully investigating to discover if they are good ideas.