Quotes About Assessment

Apparently, everyone is most scared of the psychological tests. I didn't know how I'd fare. What I've found out is I may be creative and imaginative, but I'm also extremely together.

The fact is that the College Board's products - the SAT, other standardized tests, the accompanying strategy guides - are sold at far higher than the cost to make them.

We're so used to the tests telling me if I'm smart or not. It's telling me if I know the material or not.

In the regular season, they all only count for one win or one loss. But for a team or coaching staff, these are tests, and you want to see where you're at.

Some tests suit certain players, others don't.

Experienced no-limit Texas Hold'em players understand the importance of reading flop texture.

Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events.

When Sean came to meet my parents, the first thing my dad did when he picked him up at the airport was to take him right to a shooting range. My dad was like, 'I want to see how he shoots.'

In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.

Some of the problem with IQ tests stems from the inescapable reality that human intelligence is staggeringly complex and multifaceted.

The problem with ratings is that you can give yourself a million reasons why they are what they are.

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

It's time for you to take stock of what you have, not of what you may have lost.

To stop at moral judgement on whether caste was good or evil is insufficient, as the assessment has to go much further and examine why this form of discrimination/organization was chosen.

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

In the United States, a consistent finding from the National Assessment of Educational Progress is that students at all levels of testing (ages nine, thirteen, and seventeen) are generally able to show mastery of the procedures taught, but struggle to apply their knowledge to problem-solving situations that are not clear-cut matters of applying a rule (Carpenter, Corbitt, Kepner, Lindquist, & Reys, 1980).

Stay diagnostic even as you take action.

But given that Trump is the president of the United States and claims to be a follower of Christ, it is biblically appropriate to judge his observable actions in an effort to honestly assess whether or not he fundamentally lives his life by the core values of Christianity.

Most would recognize at core that the main purpose of grades is to compare one student against another.

an inner process stands in need of outward criteria

to look at a work of art and then to make a judgement as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous.

one of the many valuable recommendations in this book is that we academics should, collectively, talk to each other more about how we actually spend our time, with all the anxieties, displacements, and failures that involves, rather than presenting ourselves as the overachieving writing robots whom most systems of assessment seem designed to reward.

when you remove time, de becker says, you are subject to the lowest-quality intuitive reaction

knowledge of a boy's IQ is of little help if you are faced with a formful of clever boys.