Quotes About Assessment

A wise, right, and true estimate of one's own powers is necessary to their highest and best use. The general who overestimates his forces leads them to defeat; he who underestimates them does not lead them at all.

Evaluation eliminates frustration. We should also evaluate unrealistic expectations. Unrealistic expectations become unmet expectations. And unmet expectations are like kindling wood-it only takes but a spark of frustration to set them ablaze and burn those involved.

gauging the truth of a person merely by looking is a fool's habit.

A total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge.

with the damage meter still clicking away.

But I think five is on the low side.

regardless of their LSAT scores

After hanging around for three days, David could tell that the ADG team was not pleased with their testing.

using it as an excuse to delay a decision until she could see whether he was going to be able to handle this sort of power.

The friends believe that Job is on trial—the defendant in a criminal case—and that he has been found guilty. But this is a backward trial. In their assessment, the judge has passed down the verdict, and now they, as the jury, need to try the case and find the evidence to uphold the verdict. To this end, Job is intensely cross-examined.

We tend to overvalue the things we can measure and undervalue the things we cannot.

Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.

Things often are as they appear. First impressions matter.

And Clark clearly knew and disapproved of El Nido. (A nido could be a nest, a den, a hole, a haunt.)

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods

But it is a common mistake to emphasise what you can measure at the expense of more important things that you can't. It is generally better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.

We process more information in the lower half of our visual field, because there is normally more to see on the ground than in the sky. We group objects into units of three or four in order to perceive numbers rather than count them, a process known as subitising, that comes in handy when assessing the number of opponents in battle.

He flings pros into the air like skeet, and one by one he shatters them with cons.

The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.

If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't fatten your lambs by weighing them?

Don't freak out until you know the facts.

I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.

Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.

One of the things that Ive always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.