Discusses a study of differences in seven instructors' grading of four college business writing assignments. (DD)

Article considers student responsibility for meeting competency standards by planning their own routes and provides a list of resources on performance-based teacher education. (Author/RK)

Article assesses the value of prescribing two commonly used tranquilizers in relieving students of examination anxiety. (Author/RK)

Continuing attention to test theory, test development, test interpretation and use, test monitoring and control, test consumer education, and the social and political consequences of testing is suggested as the primary concern of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME). (CM)

Tests must be responsive to the needs of adult learners who offer a unique history of formal education, come from different cultural/linguistic backgrounds, and may have had little exposure to tests. Transfer, occupational, continuing education and leisure program, and developmental studies of students' needs are examined. (Author/CM)

The American Federation of Teachers' basic concept of testing includes the idea that public education remains accountable to the public for its actions and that standardized tests are one measure of educational performance. (Author/CM)

The basic rationale for using objective tests is that they are relevant and reliable measures of the most important kind of learning that schools and colleges seek to foster. Measurement of student achievement in learning is necessary, if educational excellence is to be achieved. (Author/SJL)

Used a computer simulation of psychoeducational decision making to study the assessment and decision-making process. Results indicated scores on achievement tests, intelligence tests, and the disparity between the two had the greatest influence on eligibility, classification, and prognostic decisions. Decision makers indicated they were not…

Results for employment tests indicated that differential validity occurs no more frequently than would be expected on the basis of chance plus the operation of various statistical artifacts. Similar results were obtained on educational tests. Tests are neither differentially valid for, nor unfair to, Hispanics. (Author)

The inclusion of a position on standardized testing in the 1980 Democratic Party platform established testing as a political and legislative issue. Testing regulations have been introduced in 20 states and in Congess, involving critics and supporters such as: the National Education Association, Nader's Public Interest Research Groups, and the…

An introductory analysis of the relative faults and merits of various testing systems suggests the need for teacher intercession in the standard testing procedure. (LH)

A reasoning test was administered by all science teachers at a high school. This report presents the results of the test and explains how this information can be used to improve teaching. (BB)