Article focused on the demands presented by the multiply handicapped child and the educational policies that attempted to satisfy their needs. (RK)

In this article reading comprehension and science testing were discussed as a part of the IEA study in Scotland. (RK)

An experiment using business organization and management students was conducted to determine the effects of differences of frequency of testing on the performance of students enrolled under two different admission policies (75 percent or higher high school average and below 75 percent high school average) in an urban community college. (Author/AG)

Standardized science achievement tests for the elementary school are almost uniformly poor in quality; any quick-answer, paper-and-pencil science test that has consequences for the child or the school is likely to be irrelevant and perhaps harmful to those activities most likely to interest children in science. (Author/IRT)

Outlines a procedure to be followed whenever any communitywide, state, regional, or national test of either "achievement" or "ability" (including IQ) is to be given. (Author/IRT)

Article focused on the need for schools to teach students how to survive on a practical basis so that they can continue to satisfy the more elevated needs, such as security, love, self-esteem, and self-actualization. (Author/RK)

In the face of the deliberations that have been taking place in England for several years now about the merging of two '16+' examinations, the CSE and GCE Ordinary level, author investigated the French system and the examination, the BEPC, taken at 'intermediate' level by 'average' and 'above average' students. (Author/RK)

This paper reviews the successful development of an educational testing system using sophisticated data processing in a developing Caribbean nation. Begun in 1975, the 4-year program was devised to assist in the creation of a multi-national testing agency which would replace the existing British Overseas Examinations with an indigenous assessment…

AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO EVALUATE WHETHER (1) BIOGRAPHICAL DATA AND (2) MEASURES OF APTITUDES, ABILITIES, INTERESTS, AND MOTIVATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS ARE RELATED TO THE ACADEMIC SUCCESS OF ADULT STUDENTS. DETERMINATIONS WERE MADE, ALSO, ON WHETHER MEASURES OF SUCH DATA AND CHARACTERISTICS CAN BE USED TO PREDICT ACADEMIC SUCCESS IN THE SEVERAL AREAS…

THIS STUDY DEVELOPED AN INDIVIDUAL TEST FOR ASSESSING A MUSIC INSTRUMENTALIST'S ACHIEVEMENT WHILE SIGHT-READING RHYTHMS. A MATHEMATICAL SYSTEM WAS USED TO CONSTRUCT 300 RHYTHMICAL PROBLEMS CONSISTING OF 1 OR MORE MEASURES OF MUSICAL NOTATION. BASED ON PRETESTING RESULTS, A TEST WAS CONSTRUCTED OF 200 FLASH CARDS ARRANGED IN ORDER OF DIFFICULTY.…

This paper briefly discusses the use of item sampling for student evaluation in a summative evaluation context. Its proposition is that item sampling is a means of achieving better and broader student evaluation because it leaves room for individualized evaluation. Item sampling can be implemented properly by associating it to the concept of item…