#testing

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#child #count #distraction #gains #last

The guys have a lot of good cars built up. We're going to do some more testing before we go back to Las Vegas and try to win at Vegas again. We need to get off to a quick start. ↗

— Sterling Marlin

#back #before #built #cars #get

Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#convicts #defendants #dna #evidence #finds

The problem is there are no simple “right” answers for most Web design questions (at least not for the important ones). What works is good, integrated design that fills a need—carefully thought out, well executed, and tested. ↗

— Steve Krug

#designer #user-testing #web-design #design

If you want a great site, you’ve got to test. After you’ve worked on a site for even a few weeks, you can’t see it freshly anymore. You know too much. The only way to find out if it really works is to test it. ↗

— Steve Krug

#user-experience #user-testing #web-design #design

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations. ↗

— Freeman John Dyson

#creativity #education #testing #thought #education

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not." "Doesn't she? Don't all of you? This is your first taste of the things which may come from your being powerful mages. People will offer you gold, status, even love. I want to know how you will react. If want to know if your teachers will release greedy, thoughtless monsters into the world. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#consequences #niko #sandry #testing #love

Being a shrinking city and a quintessential modern site in flux, Detroit is a testing ground for experimentation and rethinking. ↗

— Luis A. Croquer

#cities #detroit #experimentation #flux #rethinking

I shared what we were learning, so that others might grow in their faith through the testing of ours. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#hope #testing #trials-of-life #faith

People spend so much time in their cars, and it's a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby. ↗

— Jordana Brewster

#becomes #bit #car #cars #fun