Quotes About Assessment

he waits for the kid to decide whether to pull the gun up or simply to drop it - and all the while, even as he tracks the progress of the gun, he is also watching the kid's face, to see whether he is dangerous or simply frightened. is there a more beautiful example of a snap judgment? this is the gift of training and expertise - the ability to extract an enormous amount of meaningful information from the very thinnest slice of experience.

Everything that can be tested must be tested

The Power of the Glance Thin-slicing is not an exotic gift. It is a central part of what it means to be human. We thin-slice whenever we meet a new person or have to make sense of something quickly or encounter a novel situation. We thin-slice because we have to, and we come to rely on that ability because there are lots of hidden fists out there, lots of situations where careful attention to the details of a very thin slice, even for no more than a second or two, can tell us an awful lot.

One of the most important tools in contemporary educational research is value added analysis.

High-tech companies like Google or Microsoft carefully measure the cognitive abilities of prospective employees out of the same belief: they are convinced that those at the very top of the IQ scale have the greatest potential.

Se você está julgando se alguém é bom violinista, saber se essa pessoa é alta ou baixa, bonita ou feia, branca ou negra não vai ajudar. Na verdade, provavelmente apenas adicionará preconceitos que dificultarão ainda mais sua tarefa.

to assess the character of a stranger. And the criminal justice system assumes, as Chamberlain did, that those kinds of difficult decisions are better made when the judge and the judged meet each other first.

If you want to get a good idea of whether I'd make a good employee, drop by my house one day and take a look around.

Do an evening review at the end of the day to reflect on what went well, and what you'd do differently next time.

The success of a man should be measured not by his income but by his tax returns.

Occasionally during the day, ask yourself: "How am I doing today and what can I do to do a better job?

In five minutes you should know if people have confirmed, calculated & considered your vision.

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

Teachers assess to test; educators assess to assist learning.

You'll never be able to really measure anything, right? Including teachers.

The important things were sensitivity to impressions, intuitive judgment, character assessment, and also patient bargaining skills. It had never so much as occurred to him to jump over walls or leap from roof to roof.

We all either underestimate each other, or else exaggerate each other's virtues. Very few people are capable of assessing others as they deserve. It is a particular gift. In fact I would even say that only the great are capable of it.

Today is my second-last lecture of the course. I don't think much of these students, I must say. They're a dim lot.

I had to recognize when a race meeting was offering me little promise so that I could bail out early.

If progress is not the right word for buildings or poems, what is the right way to evaluate cultural change? I suggest integrity.

short written or spoken examination of a person's proficiency or knowledge:

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.

Na?in na koji se kretao, njegov miris, na?in odevanja, sve su to postali kriterijumi na osnovu kojih ?e odsada pa zauvek procenjivati muškarce.