Quotes About Assessment

Today's headlines and history's judgement are not the same.

When I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.

The need for education for the individual student should be recognized... home, neighborhood. But instead of that, we have the future being determined by standardized testing.

If I go 500 at-bats and hit 10 home runs, then something's wrong.

Maybe being home schooled, Carter didn't realize that "test" is normally a bad thing.

The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.

From the way Denny's shaking his head, he's either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye.

How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

A strategy that doesn't take into account resources is doomed to failure.

Understand the acute difference between the cost of something and the value of something.

Fine gold is recognized when it is tested.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

You only have one chance for a first impression.

If you don't know when you're good, how can you know when you're bad?

When students are not asked to assess, but only to remember, they do not learn how to assess or how to think for themselves.