Diversity Quote by Alexandra Adornetto

There's a common problem: if a kid is not good at exams, they often think they are not skilled. Yet many of them do…

— Steph McGovern

Here is just the beginning of a list of skills that exam results cannot possibly hope to reflect: interpersonal skills, the ability to entertain,…

— Alexandra Adornetto

The educational system is pretty much geared to passing the next exam. You're educated to pass tests and not to understand.

— Noam Chomsky

You have to remember, we may be the only nation, the only one I know of, that uses test scores not to assess kids,…

— John Merrow

When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Exams do not assess anything significant to the future of children, because no one knows how to assess or measure the key factors to…

— Russell L. Ackoff

When teachers are forced to teach to the test, students get bored and genuine education ceases, no matter what the test scores may say……

— Myron Tribus

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

— William Glasser

If kids are studying for a test, they're not going to learn anything. We all know that from our own experience.

— Noam Chomsky

“What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments used to bring suffering and humiliation…

— Anonymous

“Simply including one test (retrieval practice) in a class yields a large improvement in final exam scores, and gains continue to increase as the…

— Peter C. Brown

The evidence would suggest that there are some great alternative certification programmes and some lousy ones. There are some wonderful traditional education schools, and…

— Wendy Kopp