Quotes About Assessment

As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.

I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.

Under HB 2655, the state is responsible to ensure parents are aware of the purpose and value of assessments and receive notice from their local school districts about their rights and obligations. Educators must engage with parents about the value of assessment and the potential consequences if parents opt out and student participation diminishes.

No government is ever going to get it perfect. The job of policymakers is to continue seeking perfection and making it better and constantly reassessing to ensure that the students and the parents are getting the most out of the education system.

Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.

To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the effects of antidepressants and altitude. But it is hugely important to find out if there are side effects. We should also find out what are the effects on fine motor skills and reaction time. These are all important questions that should be assessed.

The essence of a good investment manager is one who studies a given business and extrapolates the future cash flows that the business is likely to generate over the next several years. Based on the cash flow and asset assessment, they can then arrive at their expected rate of return if they bought a fraction of that business at a given price.

You need to carry out very careful pre-feasibility and feasibility studies before you enter any crisis situation.

You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.

I think a lot of the stuff I'm playing now is crap.

If you think something's stupid, it probably is.

Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

Independence is a very subjective assessment.

Art is very subjective and having to put numbers on it seems counterintuitive.

VCE exams do not showcase students' abilities. By this, I mean that the system fails to recognise the diversity of skills, and most subjects do not allow students to demonstrate skills in a form other than a written exam.

Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.

The issue is not whether Piaget's observations and experiments can be replicated; the issue is whether Piaget's method of assessing infant competencies (i.e., his reliance on sensorimotor action such as manual search) systematically underestimated infants' competencies.

The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.

Na, I don't think we need to go to the hospital.

Die Vermessung der Intelligenz verschiedener Menschen, mit hausbackenen oder statistisch geschliffenen Methoden, irritiert naturgemäß breite Bevölkerungsschichten.

First impression is the best impression.

training equals testing, and testing equals training.