Quotes About Assessment

Everybody's got the mindset that everything should be measurable.

Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting.

The lad stood before Durbeyfield, and contemplated his length from crown to toe.

These are probably dogs

The MMPI was developed about 1943. In the very heart of the war.....All the MMPI appears to test for is whether a man will be a good or bad soldier

Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present- not where we wish we were, or where we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.

Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?

Lack of awareness or concern for the context and constraints of the times is only part of the problem of those today assessing such historic figures as Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln - or the American nation as a whole.

You cannot measure opportunities by outcomes.

Attitude-changing curriculum programs can be assessed in a number of ways, including (1) how effective they are in the specific area in which they claim to be effective (drug prevention, for example), (2) the academic and emotional costs they entail, and (3) their wider social consequences. Remarkably

The two men sipped their drinks silently, allowing Alastair a moment more to assess his visitor. The MacGregor tartan had been his idea. He wanted no one to suspect what was afoot. His guest's face, however, was difficult to make out. Despite the fire's warmth, the man seemed reluctant to remove the plaid from his head and

Here's some free advice: Make an honest assessment of the choices you've made before you look askance at somebody else's.

Hi shook his head. "The guy's not a rocket scientist. Or a rock scientist. He's dumb, is what I'm saying.

one of the main purposes of our assesment is to find evidence of the children using these ideas to make decisions about their writing work each day, catching them in the act [of writing].

Sometimes, you can tell the measure of a man by looking him in the eye and having a conversation.

It seems perverse to define intelligence as including rationality when no existing IQ test measures any such thing!

Honestly," he says, "I judge writers on how they write queries. If you're a good writer, you're a good writer." And if not, then not.

What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a school 'values' reading what it really means is that the school intensely focuses on raising state-mandated reading test scores- the kind of reading our students will rarely, if ever, do in adulthood.

WYTIWYG" (pronounced "witty-wig"): What You Test Is What You Get.

I want my students to understand that the ability to evaluate and judge is not a school skill; it is a life skill.

Valuing reading" is often a euphemism for preparing students to pass mandated multiple-choice exams, and in dragging students down this path, schools are largely contributing to the development of readicide.

I am not against teaching students how to take a test. Indeed, we want all of our students to have test-taking knowledge. However, the emphasis of teaching reading through the lens of preparing students for state-mandated tests has become so completely unbalanced that it is drowning any chance our adolescents have of developing into lifelong readers.

What does it matter if teachers sprint through all the standards if at the end of the year their students still cannot write well?

the emphasis on testing comes at the expense of teaching children how to employ their natural creativity and entrepreneurial talents—the precise talents that might insulate them against the unpredictability of the future in all parts of the world.