Quotes About Assessment

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

I don't think, until the end, I had read a positive review of Boy Meets World.

The mirror is a good place to start judging.

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

Performance-based assessments, where students actually have to do something with what they know, tell us volumes more about their readiness for life than bubble sheets or contrived essays. No

By forcing schools and teachers to teach to the test, it has narrowed the educational experiences of millions of children and thus deprived our children, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, of a real education.

Students are encouraged to connect with others, and to collaborate and create with them on a global scale. It's not "do your own work," so much as "do work with others, and make it work that matters." To paraphrase Tony Wagner, assessments focus less on what students know, and more on what they can do with what they know.

can. If it's just about tests to graduate, grades to get into college, and scores for international comparisons — which, in large part, it is right now — school is about to be disrupted big time. I

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression

An honest assessment of our own capabilities, without conceit and without false modesty, is one of the first essentials of a useful life.

Instead, anxious to maintain their revenues at a time of low production and high military expenditure, the Company, in one of the greatest failures of corporate responsibility in history, rigorously enforced tax collection and in some cases even increased revenue assessments by 10 per cent.

The company's business model, management, and market are the three most important criteria. Does the company possess an innovative or disruptive business model that is unique, with barriers to entry to allow for strong growth? What is our assessment of the quality of the management team and our ability to work as good partners? And finally, what is the size and growth potential of the market?

I had much more fun criticizing than praising.

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

Risk, like pornography, is difficult to define, but we think we know it when we see it.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

Probabilities are relative to background information.

intelligence should not be looked at as a single gauge, like a speedometer, but as a full array of tachometers, odometers, altimeters,

perhaps intelligence should not be looked at as a single gauge, like a speedometer, but as a full array of tachometers, odometers, altimeters, and the rest.

You can't judge a book by its cover," he said. "No," said Watts. "But you can tell how much it's gonna cost!

Judy, we think that since the 11th of September 2001, we've faced a similar heightened threat level. And we've been enhancing both the exchange of intelligence and security information and the assessment of that information, because that's the crucial element.