Quotes About Assessment

The same research suggests that increasing the stress on schools, such as through high-stakes testing, is ill advised. Indeed, researchers have shown that stress increases what Irving Janis called "groupthink.

this post-trial assessment by Lord Buckmaster: The licence was accordingly refused but the refusal was not due to an adverse judgement of the play. It may be hoped that the trial of the criminal proceedings is now forgotten and the only question is on what grounds found in the play itself can it be regarded as unfit for performance.

It is proper that technically qualified non-lunatics should sit in judgement on lunatics. How could things be otherwise?

However, just for the heck of it, he wiggled his bent Sidney's out of his coat pocket, thumbed to ostrich comma male-female, old-young, sick-well, mint-used, and inspected the prices.

The effect was as if each teacher was being examined by a fierce inspector, and each lesson became an ordeal in which not the pupils but the teachers were being tested.

He asks the 80 students to respond based on their 'gut feeling'. Again, students are given five options, ranging from 'less than 1%' to 'above 40%'. About half of them believe the true answer is less than 5%, of which plenty go for the 'less than 1%' option. Only 1 in 6 get it right, picking the highest option: it turns out that the true figure is 41%. He invites those people – 13 in total – to stand up.

The phrase rush to judgment is a silly one. When it comes to judgment, most of us don't have to rush. We don't even have to leave the couch. Our judgment is so easy to reach for.

The phrase rush to judgment is a silly one. When it comes to judgment, most of us don't have to rush. We don't have to even leave the couch. Our judgment is so easy to reach for.

She regarded her grandchildren as if we were savings bonds, something certain to multiply in value through the majesty of arithmetic. Ya Ya and her husband had produced one child, who in turn had yielded five, a wealth of hearty field hands destined to return to the village, where we might crush olives or stucco windmills or whatever it was they did in her hometown. She was always pushing up our sleeves to examine our muscles, frowning at the sight of our girlish, uncallused hands.

when she'd finished she would give one of four possible judgments. "Zippy"—which was good; "Important"—which was very good; "Controversial"—which could be either good or bad, you never knew; or "Lidderary," which was pronounced with a sigh and an eye roll and was very bad.

I was always more street-smart than academic, as such, but I took a Mensa test once and did quite well in it.

I have that normal male thing of valuing myself according to the job I do.

It's so nice to see that one's opinion of humanity is accurately gauged.

I think of my actions every day: what seems to be important and what isn't.

All my life in professional baseball, people said 'He could be better.'

Dak Prescott, he's good. He's alright. He's OK.

When you lose games, you analyse them more than when you win.

I watch a lot of games and analyze a lot.

My kids get annoyed if you ask them what their GCSE results are.

You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

That is the problem we have in Argentina: we do not sit down and think.

Students of extraordinariness lack strong models that can be crisply tested.

Sólo si ampliamos y reformulamos nuestra idea de lo que cuenta como intelecto humano podremos diseñar formas más apropiadas de evaluarlo y educarlo.

While we may continue to use the words smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may persist for certain purposes, the monopoly of those who believe in a single general intelligence has come to an end. Brain scientists and geneticists are documenting the incredible differentiation of human capacities, computer programmers are creating systems that are intelligent in different ways, and educators are freshly acknowledging that their students have distinctive strengths and weaknesses.