Quotes About Assessment

I don't like being scored on on the floor.

As a footballer, you just have to try to learn what you've done bad and what I could do good.

As long as I am forbidden to see the MSPAP, my children will be forbidden to take the MSPAP.

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

The American people deserve an honest assessment of the state of our foreign affairs.

I don't take reviews seriously. I don't even read them. Who is this person blasting forth his opinion? What's his worth, and how different is he from any man on the street?

Fortunately, I've never had to be too critical of my own work, because the world is critical enough.

It doesn't matter how much experience Jayson Velez has, whether he fought for a world title or not. I'm going to see how he fights, and I'll know what to do.

I know talent when I see it. I know frauds when I see 'em. I know players that can play and can't play.

There are things you can learn about certain players while watching them in action in a friendly.

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

The individualization of learning fundamentally redefines the role of assessment.

It required what a friend calls "putting every word on trial for its life":

I'd say she's ready, wouldn't you? --The Rook, The Looking Glass Wars

We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans.

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.

Valuation is what people are willing to pay.

I scouted all the girls at Wimbledon. I wasn't impressed.

I generally read everything about me. Based on my army experience, I think it's the right thing to do. Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and thought he was winning the war.

I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.

I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.

In 1993, 89 of the 'Fortune' top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests is that they don't want you to be in the wrong kind of job. The tests have been completely exposed as nonsense.

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!

There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.