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Ebel, Robert L. – New Directions for Testing and Measurement, 1981
Tests of mental ability provide the most precise and efficient means of assessing a person's structure of knowledge. Tests help in cultivating cognitive competence, in developing and identifying excellence. The harmful consequences of not testing are outlined. (Author/AL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Test Use, Testing, Testing Problems
Download full textEducational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1957
This conference focused on the broad theme, improving the quality and scope of measurement. The first session centered on improving criteria for educational and psychological measurement, with papers on Criteria for Complex Mental Processes by Robert C. Wilson and on Criteria of Nonintellectual Aspects of Personality by Morris I. Stein. The second…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Tests, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
