Assessment Quotes - Page 6

• Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Statistics, Judgment, Innocent

  The Silence of the Sea On Statistics (p. 171)

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• Every time you swim out to the rock, it gets a little closer.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Rocks, Swim, Littles

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• For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

  Saint Augustine

  Lord, Knows

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• Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity to learn to walk upright, to use our brains, to speak, to relate to our fellow men, to construct and use tools, to explore the universe, and to express that exploration in religion, in art, in science, in philosophy.

  Margaret Mead

  Art, Philosophy, Men

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• I think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life.

  John F. Kennedy

  School, Thinking, Alumni

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• Nobody notices it when your zipper is up, but everyone notices when it's down.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Zippers

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• Those with health insurance are overinsured and their behavior is distorted by moral hazard. Those without health insurance use their own money to make decisions based on an assessment of their needs. The insured are wasteful. The uninsured are prudent. So what's the solution? Make the insured a little more like the uninsured.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Decision, Hazards, Needs

  "The Moral-Hazard Myth" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. August 29, 2005.

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• After the Volcker Fund collapsed, I got another grant from the Lilly Endowment to do a history of the U.S., which I worked on from 1962-66. The original idea was to take the regular facts and put a libertarian assessment on everything.

  Murray Rothbard

  Ideas, Libertarian, Facts

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• The pack includes analysis and summary forms as well as very explicit links between assessment and individualised intervention...these materials are often lacking in published therapy programmes and are especially helpful...the pack provides very clear guidelines...overall it will be a very significant addition to speech and language therapy practice.

  Linda Armstrong

  Practice, Analysis, Links

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• My assessment is that we have a crisis in national political leadership. When will America recognize the danger we face? When will the corrosive partisanship of American politics end and allow for a bipartisan solution to arguably the most dangerous threat our nation has faced in over 60 years?

  Ricardo Sanchez

  Years, America, Political

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• Well, what does "good" mean anyway? As Wittgenstein suggested, "good," like "game," has a family of meanings. Prominent among them is this one: "meets the criteria or standards of assessment or evaluation."

  John Searle

  Mean, Games, Doe

  "Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language". Book by John Searle, 1969.

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• Zip codes might be great for sorting mail, but they should not determine the quality of a child s education or success in the future workforce," said Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia. "With common standards and assessments, students, parents, and teachers will have a clear, consistent understanding of the skills necessary for students to succeed after high school and compete with peers across the state line and across the ocean.

  Bob Wise

  Wise, Teacher, Children

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• The only uncertainty surrounding the decision is the wording of the accompanying statement and, in particular, whether the assessment that 'some further policy firming may be needed to keep the risks ... roughly in balance' will be dropped.

  Paul Ashworth

  Decision, Risk, Balance

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• The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of more than 2,500 scientists) has provided the world community with first class assessments of the soaring temperatures the world is facing, the devastating impacts of these rises and the ways in which we can try and avoid the worst effects of global warming. We now know climate change is real and the hand of humankind in this warming is becoming clearer and clearer.

  Klaus Topfer

  Real, Impact, Hands

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• Our objective is to begin a national conversation to better support individuals and families living with ASD in Canada. The Summit will review the recent National Needs Assessment Survey and provide leaders with a better understanding of ASD surveillance across the country. We are pleased that Minister Bergen will be part of this important discussion.

  Cynthia Carroll

  Country, Support, Leader

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• One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

  George Washington Carver

  Motivational, Long, Aging

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• Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.

  John W. Campbell

  Accepting, Initials, Opposition

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• The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Answers, May, Way

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• This man I was going with asked me for my finger measurements. I thought he was going to buy me a ring for Christmas, but he gave me a bowling ball.

  Phyllis Diller

  Men, Balls, Bowling

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• You listen to the audience. The audience is wrong individually and always right collectively. If they don't laugh, it isn't funny. If they cough, it isn't interesting. If they walk out, you are in trouble.

  Peter Stone

  Laughing, Interesting, Trouble

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• For teachers, getting annual test scores several months after taking the test and in most cases long after the students have departed for the summer sends a message: Here's the data that would have helped you improve your teaching based on the needs of these students if you would have had it in time, but since it's late and there's nothing you can do about it, we'll just release it to the newspapers so they can editorialize again about how bad our schools are.

  Douglas B. Reeves

  Summer, Teacher, Teaching

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• No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Men, Deceived, Self Assessment

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• I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Believe, Tools

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• At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Growing, Levels

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• Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.

  Bill Ackman

  Needs, Errands, Fool

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