Quotes About Assessment

Las primeras impresiones, que se toman en un abrir y cerrar de ojos, son las más poderosas. De los recientes estudios se deduce que las primeras impresiones y juicios rápidos son a menudo los más acertados.

you need to assess what you can fix, what you must put up with, and what you should walk away from.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

Only a human being would be able to assess whether candidates are capable, personality-wise, of sharing and disseminating that institutional knowledge to help other newer and younger workers.

If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated.

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.

I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.

Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.

We should test prudently; not profligately.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Objective evaluations set the foundation that moves leaders to the tipping point.

Be a harsh critic of your own wins.

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school.

Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere.

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

Our problems are not with the data, itself, but arise from our interpretation of the data.

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.

Experience and the constant analysis of the most varied positions builds up a store of knowledge in a player's mind enabling him often at a glance to assess this or that position.

At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.

Aiming to check a new test's difficulty, ask your assistants to solve the test prior to the actual exam. If the results are not satisfactory, reevaluate all ambiguous questions and correct them.