Quotes About Assessment

The whole purpose of annual reviews is to keep you abreast of whether or not you are fulfilling the requirements of tenure.

Rather than use the term 'profiling,' the profilers prefer to say they engage in criminal investigative analysis. That is because, besides developing profiles, the analysts offer a range of other advice, including personality assessments and interview techniques tailored to a particular offender.

The term 'triage' normally means deciding who gets attention first.

All this terminology of rankings - forcing rankings along some distribution curve or whatever - we're done with that.

I've never seen a good tennis movie. They all were terrible.

Education seems to be placing increased emphasis on assessment and tracking, which means parents are terrified that if their kid doesn't exceed their expected learning level at six years old, they are immediately put in the class that ends up working at McDonald's.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

Honestly, I never really thought I'd be a comedian. But I did take an aptitude test in seventh grade - and this is 100 percent true - I took an aptitude test in seventh grade, and it said in my best profession was a clown or a mime.

What we have done with No Child Left Behind is squeeze the creativity out of the classroom because teachers have begun to just teaching to the test.

I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.

The most important factor in college admissions is a test that benefits those who are least prepared for college.

The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.

If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality.

When student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an increase in 'fluid intelligence' - that is, using logical thinking and problem solving in novel situations, rather than recalling previously learned facts and skills.

The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.

I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.

It's important that kids learn, but I really don't like all the testing, testing, testing.

I'm not one of these guys who thinks testing is the only thing. But testing is a piece but there has to be more human ways to evaluate what job teachers are doing and we have to do a better job of that.

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.