An Omniscient Evaluator.
Keith Keith may refer to:
People with the given name Keith: People with the surname Keith: In places: - The Barony of Keith in East Lothian Scotland, its caput being Keith Marischal.
Spurgeon once worked for a school board that would begin its
annual evaluation of his performance as district superintendent District Superintendent may be: - District Superintendent (United Methodist Church)
- A rank in the London Metropolitan Police in use from 1869 to 1886, when it was renamed Chief Constable
by
asking each member to complete a questionnaire about his work. Then the
board president would compile To translate a program written in a high-level programming language into machine language. See compiler. the separate assessments into one overall
evaluation before sharing the results with the superintendent.
One year during the board's evaluation session, the school
board president (whom Spurgeon admits was not his biggest fan) said to
him: "All the other board members rated you 'excellent'
in this area, but I think they misread mis·read
tr.v. mis·read , mis·read·ing, mis·reads
1. To read inaccurately.
2. To misinterpret or misunderstand: misread our friendly concern as prying. it so I changed it to 'needs
improvement."'
Spurgeon also lost any faith in his evaluation's confidential
nature when the board leader announced that his wife had typed the
evaluation for him.
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