Practices for administrators to consider in order to achieve the nation's six educational goals are highlighted in this digest. Goals to be reached by the year 2000 have been established in six areas: (1) readiness to learn; (2) high school completion; (3) student achievement and citizenship; (4) science and mathematics; (5) adult literacy and…

Tests can be categorized into two major groups: norm-referenced tests (NRTs) and criterion-referenced tests (CRTs). NRTs are designed to highlight achievement differences between and among students to produce a dependable rank order of students across a continuum of achievement from high achievers to low achievers. With NRTs, a representative…

The House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor asked the General Accounting Office (GAO) to look at school testing as it exists, to estimate its extent and cost, and to assess how a new national test might affect those factors. GAO gathered information from a variety of sources, including a 1991 survey with replies from 48 states…