Quotes About Assessment

We do ability grouping early on in childhood...if we look at young kids, in kindergarten and first grade, the teachers are confusing maturity with ability.

Imperfect knowledge, incomplete assessment of feedback, limited memory and recall, as well as poor problem-solving skills result in a form of rationality that attains not optimal decisions but more or less satisfactory compromises between conflicting constraints.

Ongoing evaluation

praise does not make anything better or worse.

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now. If the problem is something in your own character, who's stopping you from setting your mind straight?

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now. If the problem is something in your own character, who's stopping you from setting your mind straight? And if it's that you're not doing something you think you should be, why not just do it? —But there are insuperable obstacles. Then it's not a problem. The cause of your inaction lies outside you.

To this end there must be continual self-examination. "If thou may not continually gather thyself together, namely sometimes do it, at least once a day, the morning or the evening. In the morning purpose, in the evening discuss the manner, what thou hast been this day, in word, work, and thought.

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them, which you can erase right now

important outcomes from taking the StandOut assessment is simply that you remember your results.

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

Galleries are frightening places, places of evaluation, of judgement.

Let's pretend this, let's pretend that. They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.

I select my technology based on what I need and I also don't take up what I don't feel that I need.

Only time will tell if it was time well-spent

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Every time I get injured I measure it's severity by asking myself 'Would this stop me from going to Disneyland?'

The best time to plan an experiment is after you've done it.

I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.

I know from experience that those least capable of truly assessing any marriage are the children who come out of it. We style them as we need them, to excuse our faults, to insulate ourselves from our own expendability or indispensability.

animadversions

I'm my best and harshest critic. I know what's good and what isn't.

Mother thinks that Mrs. van D. is too stupid for words, Margot that she's too unimportant, Pim that she's too ugly (literally and figuratively!), and after long observation (I'm never prejudiced at the beginning), I've come to the conclusion that she's all three of the above, and lots more besides. She has so many bad traits, why should I single out just one of them? PS. Will the reader please take into consideration that this story was written before the writter's fury had cooled?