Quotes About Assessment

The only thing worth believing in is measurement.

two examiners, said simply that hardly anyone in Denmark was well enough informed on the subject to judge the candidate's work.

The suggestive patterning and often delicate precision of detail in such coincidences notoriously escape the net of objective assessments and experimental tests. Synchronicities seem to constitute a lived reality the experience of which depends deeply on the sensitive perception of context and nature.

He stopped several feet away, assessing them with one smooth glance, and in that instant Miranda could have sworn she saw something flicker in his dark, dark eyes. Curiosity? Confusion? Whatever it might have been, in the very next second it was gone, replaced by polite detachment.

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

I mean, I can understand not being as pricey as Percy or Jason, maybe... but am I worth, like, two Franks, or three Franks?

Scale of one to ten How would you rate your demise? Thanks for your input

Most people think of "vision" as the ability to see the future. But in today's rapidly changing world, vision is also the ability to accurately assess current changes and take advantage of them. Vision is being alert to opportunities.

His brow furrowed in a way that suggested he was calculating my likely ability to be that naive.

a frightening number of whom had IQ scores in the low 70s? I stopped reading and just stuck the records out of sight in a bottom drawer of my desk, and never thought of them again until the end of the year when I was throwing away the accumulation of papers in my desk. I was furious with those scores. My kids were not dumb! I've never trusted standardized tests since.

Do I pass, Dr. Saunders?

we can find flaws in their methodology

lo oyeron decir: «Hasta aquí vamos bien».

Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel.

Seems like there's always someone who disapproves. They'll judge it like they know about me and you.

Perfect happiness for student and teacher will come with the abolition of examinations, which are stumbling blocks and rocks of offense in the pathway of the true student.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

I do not set my life at a pin's fee.

For I am nothing if not critical.

Arguably the mos intriguing characteristic assessed by the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), a widely used test developed by the University of Minnesota's eminent psychologist Auke Tellegen, is "absorption," which describes a particular style of focusing. If you get a high score in this trait, you're naturally inclined toward what he calls a "respondent" or "experiential" way of focusing.

When you say 'This is a bad thing that's happening,' how often are you wrong?

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

when a person actually needs something or somebody, that's when you can truly read the gauge that contains character.

Adlai has a third rate mind that he can't make up.