Assessment Humor
The following version has been provided by Mikel Olson -
A small child brags to her friend, "I taught my dog to whistle."
"Wow," says the other, "Let's hear!"
"Did you see that? He opened his mouth!" replies the first. "That's not whistling! I thought you said you taught him to whistle!"
"I did! I define whistling as opening of the lips and since I wrote the assessment instrument, the fact that he just opened his lips proves he can whistle and that I am a great teacher" said the first.
"Okay, I'll buy that. Just be sure you put all of your data into a 5-page report with lots of poorly defined assessment jargon and lots of graphs so we have plenty to talk about at all of our meetings," said the friend.