The implementation of any competency testing program must take into consideration the due process clause and the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Examples of the violation of the due process clause would be to implement a testing program without adequate notice or to cover material not taught. Instructional validity must be…

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has had a competency-based vocational instructor approval process for more than two and one-half decades. Perhaps the most important element in this process has been the vocational competency testing. Although some say that Massachusetts is out of step, others feel that Massachusetts has a well-established testing…

The report questions whether there is evidence to indicate a significant undercount of the Spanish speaking background population in the United States in the 1970 Census and whether the undercount, if any, was due to the U.S. Census Bureau's methodology, including its collection techniques. The report also notes that these issues are not unique to…