The 1975 Community/Junior College Conference sought to define and describe evaluation, discuss measuring devices, and underscore the ethical reasons for fair evaluation. William P. Gorth began by discussing the purpose of evaluation--to provide data to a specified decision-maker for decision-making--and the implications which could be drawn from…

The eight papers presented at the 1973 Invitational Conference on Testing Problems were primarily concerned with proposed changes in the evaluation of psychometric testing: what its purposes are and how best to use these test results in the development of the individual and his concept of himself. The emphasis of the papers lies in a more direct…