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Stone, Chuck – NJEA Review, 1980
The author, a former employee of the Educational Testing Service, criticizes that organization for having a stranglehold on American education through its monopoly in admissions testing. He claims that ETS has little concern for consumers. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Accountability, College Entrance Examinations, Higher Education, Opinions
Criscuolo, Nicholas P. – NJEA Review, 1972
Article describes problems encountered by school districts over publication of student reading test scores, and lists ways to insure correct test result interpretation. (SP)
Descriptors: Reading Level, Reading Tests, Test Interpretation, Test Results
Lehrhaupt, Arthur – NJEA Review, 1972
Believes that the New Jersey Commission of Education's Policy of state-wide testing creates an atmosphere of repression against teachers'' and curbs imagination and innovation'' in children. (DS)
Descriptors: Group Testing, Intelligence Tests, State Government, State Legislation
Dyer, Henry S. – NJEA Review, 1973
Retired vice-president of Educational Testing Service asserts that chances for tests being misused are greater than ever. Speech delivered at ETS's Invitational Conference on Testing Problems on October 28, 1972, in New York, New York. (DS)
Descriptors: Group Testing, Intelligence Tests, Measurement Techniques, Test Bias
McKenna, Bernard H. – NJEA Review, 1976
Article presented a true story of how two cities ran testing programs and the lessons that can be learned from their failures. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Scores, Standardized Tests, Student Attitudes
Weiss, John Gordon – NJEA Review, 1981
The condensed testimony of John Gordon Weiss, of The Committee for Fair and Open Testing, before the New Jersey State Senate and Assembly Education Committees, February 11, l981. Mr. Weiss focuses on misleading publicity and misscoring by the Educational Testing Service and on New York State's Truth-in-Testing legislation. (Editor/SJL)
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Disclosure, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
NJEA Review, 1982
New Jersey Education Association policy regarding testing is presented. The policy recognizes the need of teachers, students, parents, and other decision-makers for continuous and comprehensive evaluation and diagnosis of student progress, but opposes the use of tests for denying opportunities, allocating school funds, evaluating teachers or…
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Standardized Tests
NJEA Review, 1982
Dr. Saul Cooperman, newly appointed Commissioner of Education in New Jersey, discusses his views on state aid cuts; the "Thorough and Efficient" Law, formally known as the Public School Education Act of 1975; paper work, urban education, good schools, and other issues facing New Jersey public education. (Author/LC)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grants, State Federal Aid, State Officials