Quotes About Evaluation

Analysis and design are not binary deliverables. They do not have unambiguous completion criteria. There's no real way to know that you are done with them.

Some folks think that Agile is about going fast. It's not. It's never been about going fast. Agile is about knowing, as early as possible, just how screwed we are.

Nietzsche says very clearly all the way through his career that if you want to define human nature the first thing you must say is that human beings insist on value--we see the world through value colored eyes. We do not know how to look at things neutrally, value-free. So, it's not a question of giving up all values, it's simply a question of which values.

Never discriminate as to whom you study and whom you trust. Never trust anyone completely and study everyone, including friends and loved ones.

Daily Law: Look for signs of your own aggressive impulses in past actions—how they led to friction or success.

So it is important to judge over time whether a person is rational or irrational. Can they sustain success and hit upon several good strategies? Can they adjust and learn from failures?

judge all things by what they cost you.

Powerful people judge everything by what it costs, not just in money but in time, dignity, and peace of mind.

Test for Envy

I read a lot of bad books- books so bad that they aren't even published,which is quite a feat, when you consider what is published. - The Ghost, Robert Harris.

Characteristics of sound feedback include that it should be frequent, give students a clear picture of their progress and how they might improve, and provide encouragement.

Comprehensive observations occur over an extended period of time—typically the majority of a class period and ideally an entire class period.

short, the preconference is intended to set the stage for what will be the focus of the comprehensive observation.

we suggest that observers rely primarily on anecdotal feedback during walkthroughs.

The only feedback teachers receive is whether they use the strategy. Such a process provides no feedback as to the level of skill a teacher exhibits relative to a particular strategy. This absence violates a basic principle of effective feedback

Teacher Self-Assessment: A Mechanism for Facilitating Professional Growth.

Social psychologist Leon Festinger described a "social comparison process"10 as a human universal. People everywhere compare themselves with others of similar social rank, paying much less attention to those who are either far above them or far below them on the social ladder.

Moiraine had been taught to judge people's capabilities long before she left home.

I look at an objective,' answered Vasili, 'and I do my best to analyse the problems inherent in reaching it.

An expert and a precisionist makes his analysis first, he always said, then his decision.3

grades really cover up failure to teach.

Now there was an alternative explanation: people disagreed about Quality because some just used their immediate emotions whereas others applied their overall knowledge.

Those who thus seek to screen an idol from criticism only betray their own suspicions about the worthiness of the totem they worship.

Cynics criticize, and winners analyze" was