Quotes About Evaluation

Good tests can help teachers determine how their students are performing and identify the areas in which their students need assistance. Like an X-ray, however, tests can diagnose, but they cannot cure.

I got several litmus tests for songs, but usually the people at the publishing company... they're straight-shooters.

Think about being a teenager and feeling like school is just about taking tests you may or may not be interested in, after which someone will judge whether or not you're smart. No one's going to be inspired by that.

I thought of a sign I had seen... another scary time, when I was two hundred feet up in a giant karri tree in South West Australia. At the point where the precarious spiral ladder grew even steeper and narrower to reach the fire-watch platform atop the tree, the sign said: 'Reassess Your Situation Now: Turn Back if You Are Not Comfortable'. Then, as now, that seemed like damn good advice.

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

You did a bang-up job, but I can't give you an A because you were up against such feeble opposition.

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

Because when I saw you yesterday afternoon, you claimed you weren't sure that something was wrong with Cortland's grandfather. But if you sent a note to Sir Arthur, you must have been sure that something was wrong even before you brought Dr. Reeves there this morning." "Are you trying to evaluate your judgment or mine?" "Either or both," said Andrew with a grin.

A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us ask what we have done with us. It makes us ask whether our very achievements are not ironical counterpoint and contrast to our fundamental failures.

Be prepared to re-examine your reasoning

In deciding what is rational to do, we need to take into account two further considerations independent of probability, which Keynes called 'the weight of argument' and 'moral risk'.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

The standard by which we will be judged and by which we should evaluate ourselves is not the pragmatic standard of the world. Being church and being disciples of Christ is not like driving a Plymouth to Dallas. While the world should look upon Jesus's life and ministry as failures and what he calls us to be as foolish, futile, and contrary to our nature, the Word teaches the church a new meaning of success and calls us to follow him.

The keen sensitivity with which people detect the flaws of their rivals is one of nature's wonders. It takes a Herculean effort to control this tendency consciously, and the effort must be repeated on a regular basis.... Honesty of evaluation is simply beyond the reach of most mortals.

El mundo de la literatura es terrible, además de ridículo, decía. Y añadía que ni siquiera el repetido encuentro con un mismo jurado constituía de hecho un peligro, pues estos generalmente no leían las obras presentadas o las leían por encima o las leían a medias.

According to Dieter Hellfeld, a member of the Swedish Academy

Amanda and I both paused to take in that bit of wisdom. And try to decide if it even was wisdom.

For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is...

I never confuse the cost of something with its value

How often does a man know, without question, that he has done well? I do not think it happens often in anyone's life, and it becomes even rarer once one has a child.

Take some advice, and you may survive this trip. When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

I think I made a better boy than I do man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

How often does a man know, without question, that he has done well? I do not think it happens often in anyone's life, and it become even rarer once one has a child.

Stop judging how everyone else treats their faith and study your own," George had counseled.