Assessment Methods Quotes

Something I've really enjoyed learning more about is course design.

Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.

You'll never be able to really measure anything, right? Including teachers.

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

Themes around education and learning run through my work.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.

It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

I say that our system of tests and grades, as it now exists, is one source of the low yield of great men from our universities. The marking system is a traumatic experience from which most students emerge with a deep determination never to get into a situation where they can be marked again. They just won't ever again take a chance.

Let's be honest, some people are better suited to exams than others in the same way that some of us are more sporty or arty.

Standardised tests cannot capture all, but on the other hand, students who are not capable of doing well on standardised tests are not well-equipped to thrive in today's world and so it's important for teachers to ensure that students gain the foundation necessary to meet the baseline educational standards these tests represent.

You love tests?" "Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?

VCE exams do not showcase students' abilities. By this, I mean that the system fails to recognise the diversity of skills, and most subjects do not allow students to demonstrate skills in a form other than a written exam.

Not all teams use the same tests and certainly those tests are far from being 100 percent as well. It's part of the process.

I have not seen that standardised tests make the profession less attractive, though some principals respond to them in a way that drives the best teachers out of their schools (by over-emphasising test prep in the school curriculum for example). On the other hand, great teachers want benchmarks to measure progress and tests can help with that.

In a large country like the United States or India, families differ significantly on their own education values, and I don't believe it is necessary to put everyone through the same curricula and assessments.

The individualization of learning fundamentally redefines the role of assessment.

Ability is not always gauged by examination.

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations