Quotes About Assessment

But what can be measured is not always what is worth measuring; what gets measured may have no relationship to what we really want to know. The costs of measuring may be greater than the benefits.

Measuring the most easily measurable. There is a natural human tendency to try to simplify problems by focusing on the most easily measureable elements.1 But what is most easily measured is rarely what is most important, indeed sometimes not important at all. That is the first source of metric dysfunction.

So organizations measure what they've spent, rather than what they produce, or they measure process rather than product.

Since many impoverished students would inevitably be absent when the annual test was administered, or would fail the test itself, he predicted that the net effect of the proposed reform would be to reduce the funding of schools for the poor.

All a person needs to do is observe what the market is telling him and evaluate it.

Aga nii see inimene on: hindab ainult seda, millest ilma jääb.

He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.

He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgment.

I misjudged you," Harvey said. "You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

Screening for gestational diabetes at 26 to 28 weeks; generally consists of a 50-g oral glucose load and assessment of the serum glucose level after 1 hour.

The first rule is that a measurement—any measurement—is better than none. But a genuinely effective indicator will cover the output of the work unit and not simply the activity involved. Obviously, you measure a salesman by the orders he gets (output), not by the calls he makes (activity).

a genuinely effective indicator will cover the output of the work unit and not simply the activity involved.

The long and short of it: if performance matters in your operation, performance reviews are absolutely necessary.

One big pitfall to be avoided is the "potential trap." At all times you should force yourself to assess performance, not potential. By "potential" I mean form rather than substance.

the performance rating of a manager cannot be higher than the one we would accord to his organization! It is very important to assess actual performance, not appearances; real output, not good form.

Der Fortschritt", sagte er schließlich, "ist wie eine Herde Schweine. Und so muss man diesen Fortschritt betrachten, so muss man ihn bewerten. Wie eine Herde Schweine, die auf dem ganzen Gehöft herumlaufen. Aus der Existenz dieser Herde ergeben sich verschiedene Vorteile. Es gibt Schinken. Es gibt Wurst, es gibt Speck, es gibt Eisbein in Aspik. Kurzum, Nutzen! Und da braucht man nicht die Nase rümpfen, dass alles vollgeschissen ist.

breath, trying to make sense of the story. I dealt with criminal law all the time but you still had to hear the person out, listen to all of the facts, and then assess the situation yourself while trying to find the truth.               "First

Perez might irritate the shit out of him, but he was the best judge of character Taylor knew. He watched men like David Attenborough watched animals.

Kendrick Lamar is not a whack rapper, not at all. Do I think he's a super-mega-lyricist? Not really.

Someone who sees you on a certain night, maybe they've seen you on a bad night. I've seen Tom Brady throw interceptions. Is it time to retire, or is it a bad game? What if all week in practice he looked phenomenal?

Education means teaching kids how to do stuff and how to think about stuff. Education is a pretty simple concept with a very clear way to measure results: you give some kind of an exam - maybe it's one of those standardized tests all kids hate, maybe it's some kind of essay, but whatever it is, it'll measure the results, and the kids will hate it.

I think there is only one person who can judge what I can do behind the steering wheel - and that's myself.

Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.