This report discusses five issue areas in which it is believed substantial improvements in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) might be achieved. The unifying themes among these issues are to increase the visibility of NAEP, its relevance to policymakers, and its utility to state and local agencies. The first of five substantive…

Five papers given at a conference on the role of testing in the teaching profession are presented. The conference partners included the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Educational Testing Service, Center for Fair and Open Testing, and National Education Association. The following issues are discussed: appropriate uses of…

Developed as a guide to resources in the Robert E. Kennedy Library at California Polytechnic State University, this bibliography includes a selective listing of books, microfiche, and reference materials on the topic of educational and psychological testing. The publications included either contain sample or entire test items, and…

This article focused on societal reaction to deviance, definers rather than the defined, on the presupposition that because the deviant is one so labelled, by studying the definers one is also indirectly studying the nature of the defined. (Author/RK)

The "Standard Written English" test newly added to the Scholastic Aptitude Test is reactionalry, unscholarly, and potentially discriminatory. (JH)

Described a program designed to improve each student's ability to discriminate sounds, increase listening skills, improve the use of oral English and indirectly to improve reading abilities (vocabulary and comprehension). (Author/RK)

In a program of research conducted for the Scottish Council for Research in Education, students' test scores together with background information such as Verbal Reasoning Quotient and father's occupation were compared against performance in the Scottish Certificate of Education "O" Grade examination taken at age 16. (Editor/RK)

Recounts the negative experiences two cities had with districtwide testing programs. (IRT)

Reviews the 1974 Standards, an updating serving as a guide to test making and publishing, and training of persons for these endeavors. (DEP)

Supports government policy of encouraging examination reform in universities in India through the setting up of Question Banks which would contain tested examination questions and statistical information on their validity and reliability. Suggests guidelines for development and use of the question banks by organizations and universities. (JT)

Provides a brief history of competitive examinations and testing--especially in education--and reminds teachers of the purposes of testing. (RB)

This article describes a method whereby varied dimensional criteria are used in subdividing groups of students, with the aim of minimizing incompatibility within the sub-groups. The method has varied pedagogical uses. (Text is in German.) (Author/AM)

The career of Stuart Appleton Courtis in the growth of testing and educational measurement parallels the development of progressive education in the first half of the twentieth century. In 1909 he developed the standardized Courtis Arithmetic Test, Series A, the first objective test used in any city public schools. Continuing his work in testing,…

A number of current activities at the Center for the Study of Evaluation (CSE) are described, including research programs, evaluation services, workshops and field training programs, publications, and information dissemination. The Evaluation and Decision Making Program studies evaluation from three different perspectives: (1) the program level,…