Quotes About Assessment

Why do men outperform women on the SAT? The SAT's supposed to predict college grades. Women do better in high school and they do better in college. What's the problem here? Ah, the more you use, the more you start accepting that the SAT's coachable, the more problems you have with it.

It's very difficult to predict a team's competitiveness.

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.

To have full and multiple criteria is the best way to decide who is best prepared to be on that Olympic team.

If I'm preparing for something and I've got a huge day the next day, I have to get into character the night before to assess the scene. I can't assess a scene unless I'm in character, if that makes sense.

I see things about the present more clearly when I'm looking through the frame of the past: I think it's very hard to assess the present moment that we are in.

Now that President Trump is a reality, I happily have been giving him a chance to see how he does.

Every year since 1990, the Gallup poll has asked Americans to assess all the presidents since John F. Kennedy. And every year, Kennedy comes out on top.

If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.

I think there's a presumption of a climate emergency which I don't think there is. I think there's a climate problem, I don't think there's an emergency.

When hiring somebody, I never ask to see a curriculum vitae. I feel that since I didn't have one myself, it would be a bit presumptuous to ask to see anyone else's.

I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.

Philip Rivers, I think he's pretty good.

If there's one thing, I've been pretty good at evaluating people.

I feel like I'm a pretty good judge of character because I've had to judge a lot of characters.

I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast.

If a movie has three decent scenes and a decent character, I think, 'OK, at least they got that guy right.'

My way of deciding whether a film is worth doing is if you can get through it all in the first read.

I believe Ofsted measures poverty. It measures deprivation. It doesn't measure excellence.

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.

In a large country like the United States or India, families differ significantly on their own education values, and I don't believe it is necessary to put everyone through the same curricula and assessments.

You haven't been on tape, nobody sees what you can do, nobody sees how you play, so they don't have anything to watch.

I don't like to judge from tapes. The strategy starts in the ring.