Quotes About Assessment

Los procesos educativos actuales no tienen en cuenta los estilos individuales de aprendizaje ni el talento. De ese modo, ofenden el principo de individualidad.

Assessment has several roles. The first is diagnostic, to help teachers understand students' aptitude and levels of development. The second is formative, to gather information on students' work and activities and to support their progress. The third is summative, which is about making judgments on overall performance at the end of a program of work.

there are a variety of ways to express intelligence, and that no one scale could ever measure this.

Too many feel that what they're good at isn't valued by schools.

Education is being strangled persistently by the culture of standardized testing. The irony is that these tests are not raising standards except in some very particular areas, and at the expense of most of what really matters in education.

We're reducing the number of high-stakes tests from fifteen to five.

The mistake that many policymakers make is to believe that in education the best way to face the future is by improving what they did in the past. There are three major processes in education: the curriculum, which is what the school system expects students to learn; pedagogy, the process by which the system helps students to do it; and assessment, the process of judging how well they are doing.

To see the past from the vantage point of the present is to be able to judge the effect of the past on the present.

The difference between what I think is valuable and what is really valuable creates waste.

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth.

As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured.

two sharp brown eyes surveyed the room like drive-by shooters.

Okay . . . Joe quickly figured

Recall our XP case study, where Greg Woodward noted that a lot of developers dislike the extreme environment and end up leaving after a few weeks. The aspect that most distresses them? The transparency. You're either producing good code, or you're obviously not. Some are simply not comfortable with this blunt assessment of what they're actually accomplishing.

At the end of every week he prints his numbers to see how well he achieved this goal, and then uses this feedback to guide himself in the week ahead.

But when it comes to decisions affecting your core career, money remains an effective judge of value. "If

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

In my work I don't have that luxury. The stakes of some predictions require that I intimately recognize and accept what I observe in others no matter who they are, no matter what they have done, no matter what they might do, no matter where it takes me in myself. There may be a time in your life when you too won't have the luxury of saying you don't recognize someone's sinister intent. Your survival may depend on your recognizing it.

Discrepancies in educational performances—This is often one of the most obvious indicators of dyslexia.

Something was seriously wrong with Burnside. Either his mental apparatus wasn't functioning or he was grossly incompetent. Probably both.

His cunning gaze assesses the situation as if he's already considered three ways to destroy everyone present.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

Ask a programmer to review ten lines of code, he'll find ten issues. Ask him to do five hundred lines, and he'll say it looks good.