This book examines the unhealthy and enduring obsession with standardized testing in the United States and how this tool of the meritocracy affects all U.S. residents, from kindergarten to job seeking. Why standardized testing continues to dominate the educational system is explored, as is why standardized testing is such a pervasive influence in…

The first section of this report guides Delaware educators through the decision-making process for participation in the Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP) for students with disabilities and for students who are dually eligible as a student with a disability and limited English proficient (SD/LEP).The second section will guide Delaware…

After speed-reading partisans questioned the criticisms in a Psychology Today article, another psychologist conducted a controlled study of speed readers. As we said before, "Speed Readers Don't Read; They Skim". (Editor)

With an increasing number of cases currently coming to the courts' attention to examine the conditions under which educational and psychological testing practices violate one's constitutional rights, this article considers the responses from school systems, professional organizations, the Federal Government, school psychologists, and the testing…

The performance of black youths in educational and psychological testing situations cannot be assessed adequately without consideration of their particular attitudes, perceptions, and behavioral patterns. The authors discuss Blacks' attitudes toward whites, systems of time allocations, expressions of identity, attitudes toward learning,…

An indictment of the ways in which reading and mathematics standardized tests affect classroom curricula. (Author)

The present report is concerned with making comparisions between the nature and range of worries recorded by students at a British university and those indicated by New Zealand students, as well as with identifying associated variables such as examination success. (Author)

Article takes a critical look at several of the approaches that have been developed to assess children's progress. Testing, they say, is not sufficient as a method of evaluation. (Author/RK)

Several areas of controversy between Soviet pyschologists and their Western colleagues concerning the usefulness of tests for measurement of mental ability are noted in this article. The author outlines test procedures suggested by Russian psychologist, Lev Vygotsky. (SM)

Study attempted to determine the extent to which visual perception skills are related to language and general ability in nursery school children. (Author)

Author attempts to determine whether testing perpetuates a misevaluation of children's abilities. (Editor/RK)

The present study was conducted to determine (1) if the quantitative section of the Admission Test for Graduate Study in Business is more speeded for black examinees than for white, and (2) if reducing or increasing the degree of speededness has a differential effect on the scores of minority versus majority group members. (Author)

This study attempted to answer two questions: should variable or constant grapheme-phoneme correspondence be introduced initially and should paired-associate or conceptual training be used in initial training. (Author/RK)

The congruency ranking of the 150 objectives presented in this research seems to indicate that both teachers and students can agree on the intended behaviors demanded by a substantial number of instructional objectives. (Authors)

The focus of this article is on discrimination in the use of educational and psychological tests requirements in the hiring of minority groups. (Author/AG)