Quotes About Assessment

Suffice it to say that our over-reliance on testing is based largely on habit, wishful thinking, and leaps of faith.

The likeability and popularity of 'Duck Dynasty's' Phil Robertson stem from his quick wit and honest assessment of situations that arise in reality television.

The U.S. must continue to carefully withdraw troops from Afghanistan at a pace based on assessment of the ground conditions so we do not leave our Afghan partners unable to guarantee long-term security or risk Afghanistan becoming a terrorist safe haven again.

Within three hours of a disaster event there should be a recon damage assessment of the infrastructure and an educated guess as to the casualties and degree of imminent human peril. Then make the airdrops of supplies and personnel. Simultaneously, Seabees would be dropped in, with lights and generators, to begin rescue efforts.

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Theresa May is singularly unsuited for high office and lacks political talent.

You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy.

I am a thinker, and I do muse over things a lot and am constantly assessing whether I am doing enough or what I should be doing more of to make sure I am not letting anyone down.

I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

Anyone who thinks they're sexy needs their head checked.

It's what the reader thinks that counts.

Thirty is still the iconic number. It's when people compare their actual lives with what they think they should have achieved.

In over thirty years working in TV and movies, I've never had an exit interview or contributed to a 360 assessment.

We're journalists, and so it's our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough assessment of what's happening on the ground from the perspective of what we're able to see.

I'm not a writer, but I'm very good at editing. That's my specialty. I can read something and tell you everything that's wrong with it and what's great about it and what needs to change, but it's hard for me to organize my thoughts.

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.

It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes," [T.S. Eliot] wrote, "who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.

If men can be categorized for their looks on a scale of 1 to 10, they can also be graded for their sexual prowess, A to F." —MARGARET THATCHER I

His shortcoming, a fatal one, was his arrogance: he was not an overt bully, and he listened carefully while assessing a situation, but he was right about everything, contemptuous of those who crossed him and dismissive of their arguments. People like him tend not to have friends: friends serve only to make the tough decisions so much harder.

Exams do not assess anything significant to the future of children, because no one knows how to assess or measure the key factors to the future success of any person, child or adult. They are a closed system; tests exist for their own sake. They measure the ability of the entire school community—children, parents, teachers, administrators—to focus all their efforts on producing good results on tests! Nothing more, nothing less. To

One stupid woman recognizes another one from a distance.

To qualify as practice, the learner must make some kind of behavioral response. For the purposes of formal training, that response usually generates a visible product—one that can be evaluated by the instructional environment.