Quotes About Assessment

Does this bring more joy into the world, or does it diminish joy in the world?

But few black parents had any substantial contact with the school. Rist doubts their assessment would have been so positive had they been "really aware" of what was happening to their children.

We are told that standardized testing must be imposed to make sure students meet a set of standardized criteria so they will later be able to fit into a world that is itself increasingly standardized. Never are we asked, of course, whether it's good to standardrize children (sorry, I mean students), knowledge, or the larger world.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Begitu seseorang mengenal konsep uang, maka ia menjadi seperti taksi yang ditancapi argometer. Mendadak ia mulai menghitung, mengukur, dan menaksir apapun yang dilewatinya

We deal right now in the educational landscape with an infatuation with the culture of one right answer that can be properly bubbled on the average multiple choice test. I am here to share with you, it is not learning.

NAEP is central to any discussion of whether American students and the public schools they attend are doing well or badly. It has measured reading and math and other subjects over time. It is administered to samples of students; no one knows who will take it, no one can prepare to take it, no one takes the whole test. There are no stakes attached to NAEP; no student ever gets a test score.

If she [English literature teacher Mrs. Ratliff] had been evaluated by the grades she gave, she would have been in deep trouble., because she did not award many A grades. An observer might have concluded that she was a very ineffective teacher who had no measurable gains to show for her work.

By comparing prior test scores, Sanders reasoned that the racial and socioeconomic characteristics of that student became unimportant. In effect, Sanders treated student learning as a finite quantity, with the teacher as the variable.

As he settled in, he assessed the way he felt with one of his favorite phrases from Mark Twain—the calm confidence of a Christian holding four aces. He slept well.

Do I have a concussion?" "I don't know," she says. "Is my nose broken?" "And you have a concussion," she says.

I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.

At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.

Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change.

Probation means 'period of testing somebody's suitability; period when student must improve.

There is a period after every disaster in which people wander around trying to figure out if it is truly a disaster. Disaster psychologists use the term "milling" to describe most people's default actions when they find themselves in a frightening new situation.

There are many ways to tell if someone is a bit thick. You can sit them in a room and ask them to push various bits of plastic into a wooden box. Or you can ask them to describe a cloud. Or you can carefully measure the distance between their eyes, the height of their forehead or the length of their arm.

They examine me like I'm a cow at a 4-H auction. I try not to moo.

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

I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.

The most characteristic feature of metric fixation is the aspiration to replace judgment based on experience with standardized measurement.

If what is actually measured is a reasonable proxy for what is intended to be measured, and if it is combined with judgment, then measurement can help practitioners to assess their own performance, both for individuals and for organizations. But problems arise when such measures become the criteria used to reward and punish—when metrics become the basis of pay-for-performance or ratings.

observations that are communicated through quantitative measures are regarded as "empirical," while observations conveyed in qualitative form are treated as less reliable, despite the fact that "in practice, many of the quantitative metrics used in assessments are themselves anecdotal in that they reflect the observational bias of those reporting.

If what is actually measured is a reasonable proxy for what is intended to be measured, and if it is combined with judgment, then measurement can help practitioners to assess their own performance, both for individuals and for organizations.