Quotes About Assessment

Although in principle both women believed in love, neither of them believed in romance. It was all a performance for them, what women had to do for men, what men had to do for women—it was a manner of assessing each other's value. Cora had taken an economics class in college and was fairly certain her vagina was a capitalist tool.

Robin looked at Daniel and had the meanest thought of her life: "He'll do.

We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements, and that it may not legitimately use a previous and less vigorous test. The advanced test must indeed include that which has already been attained; but if it includes no more, we shall fail to go forward, thinking complacently that we have "arrived" when in reality we have not yet started.

A lot happens to the concept of agency once nonhuman things are figured less as social constructions and more as actors, and once humans themselves are assessed not as autonoms but as vital materialities.

There is no way any rational, reasonable person can say that the Bush Administration has been good for America.

Once you [work on your idea extra hours], you'll learn whether your excitement and interest is real or just a passing phase.

Resumés are ridiculous

The enthusiasm you have for a new idea is not an accurate indicator of its true worth.

When you build what you need, you can also assess the quality of what you make quickly and directly, instead of by proxy. Mary

Oleg won the assessment because he naturally thinks of himself and not the rest of his squad," he said. "Is that also the sign of a promising potential officer?

I'd like to explore whether a raise for me might make sense. From the information I have, I think I deserve one. [Here's my reasoning.] I wonder how you see it?

The evaluation conversation needs to take place first. When a professor hands back a graded paper, the student will first turn to the last page to check their grade. Only then can they take in the instructor's margin notes. We can't focus on how to improve until we know where we stand.

While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.

If we go exclusively by the information we receive on a daily basis through the news reports and the mainstream media, then our assessment of the state of human affairs in this new millennium will necessarily be overwhelmingly negative, and we will most likely come to the depressing conclusion that nothing has changed. After all, it continues to be true for millions of people that the greater part of human suffering is not due to natural disasters, but is inflicted by humans on one another.

Društvo je nebesko telo koje se okre?e i treba ga procenjivati na osnovu mesta koje zauzima na nebu svakog pojedinca; a trenutno je svoju svetlost usmeravalo ka Lili.

Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

El juez supremo del rendimiento es el Padre Tiempo.

But I've also come to see our respect for overwork as, perhaps a bit paradoxically, intellectually lazy. Measuring time is literally the easiest way to assess someone's dedication and productivity, but it's also very unreliable.

her interest was not the beginning of a friendship but more of a measuring. She

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss

In 1994, the College Board changed the test's name from Scholastic Aptitude Test to the Scholastic Assessment Test. Now according to the College Board, the letters don't stand for anything anymore. Perhaps that itself is symbolic.

a grade can be regarded only as an inadequate report of an inaccurate judgment by a biased and variable judge of the extent to which a student has attained an undefined level of mastery of an unknown proportion of an indefinite amount of material.

Every hour that teachers spend preparing kids to succeed on standardized tests, even if that investment pays off, is an hour not spent helping kids to become critical, curious, creative thinkers.)

the most notable aspect of a positive judgment is not that it is positive but that it is a judgment.