All beginning teachers in Georgia receive a three-year nonrenewable certificate. During the term of the certificate they must satisfactorily demonstrate 14 performance competencies in two consecutive assessments. (Author/MLF)

Discusses the present state of assessing students' oral language proficiency. Includes a comparison of achievement and proficiency test formats, an explanation of the ratings system, and a discussion on the need for a common standard. The adoption of frequency ratings by the academic community is a way off. (PJM)

Replicates the study by McGarrigle and Donaldson (1975). Considers several objections to McGarrigle and Donaldson's claim that the tasks they used did in fact test the child's ability to conserve number. A procedure free from these objections was employed in a second experiment. Discusses implications for the social psychology of the conservation…

In spite of new methodologies in foreign language instruction, much testing is still of the traditional type. Paper and pencil tests are given, testing in exactly the same way the teachers themselves were tested. This article suggests 25 points for language teachers on all levels. (Author/PJM)

A procedure for approximating attained significance levels of exact conditional tests is proposed. The procedure utilizes a sampling from the null distribution of tables having the same marginal frequencies as the observed tables. (Author/JKS)

The WISC-R and WAIS were administered to 16-year-old EMH students in a test-retest design to distribute practice effects. Analysis of data revealed significantly higher WAIS scores on all levels of VIQ, PIQ, and FIQ for all groups. (Author)

A method of identifying learning disabled adolescents using the method of Bayesian Revision of Subjective Probabilities, which utilizes both teacher judgments and psychometric tests, is proposed. (DB)

The complex attitudinal impact on women athletes of receiving or not receiving a scholarship is examined. (JD)

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) gathers information about national levels of education achievement that helps explain and interpret other research, policy efforts, and the phenomena of unanticipated changes in American education. (Author) Primary type of information provided by report: Program Description (Program Goals)…

A computer-assisted test construction system is described and discussed. The author offers the software to interested readers. (MK)

This study examined the effects of varying cognitive demands on the task performance of 8- to 17-year-old autistic children. (CM)

A comparison of the two leading indices of moral development, the Defining Issues Test and the Moral Dilemma Interview, was made using 215 subjects ranging in age from 12 to 25. Correlation between the two tests was low when age, socioeconomic status, and intelligence variables were partialed out. (Author/SS)

The author considers the implications of minimum competency requirements for handicapped students, teachers of the handicapped, and mainstreaming. (SBH)

An expanded multiple matrix sampling procedure to collect assessment data for health education courses in upper elementary and junior high schools is outlined. This supplement to the Cooperative Health Education Test provides data at the school building and district levels. (JMF)

Some of the more simplified methods for contrasts with equal sample sizes in multiple regression analysis are shown to result in erroneous calculations when applied to data sets with unequal sample sizes. An alternative method is provided. (Author/JKS)