constructing a good life through the exploration of value and valuing
Validity, reliability, comparability, and fairness are not just measurement issues, but social values that have meaning and force outside of measurement wherever evaluative judgments and decisions are made.
Messick, S. (1994). The Interplay of Evidence and Consequences in the Validation of Performance Assessments. Educational Researcher, 23(2), 13–23.
For there is nothing either good or bad, thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare
The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew every time he sees me, while all the rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
George Bernard Shaw
If you judge, investigate. Seneca
Linda Mabry, evaluation soul sister, on evaluators’ responsibility to participate in public dialogue..
I doubt we would deserve more arrows for doing something that might excite debate than we would deserve for fearful disengagement.
One fundamental of evaluation…
Friend to Groucho Marx: “Life is difficult!”
Marx to Friend: “Compared to what?”
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. Albert Einstein
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. Socrates
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. Winston Churchill
And there’s a mighty judgement coming, but I may be wrong. Leonard Cohen
I have added a new category to the blog, and will be posting quotes about evaluation… The first is one of my absolute favorites…
We cannot discover what ought to be the case by examining what is the case. We must decide what ought to be the case. Paul Taylor
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