Suggestions for software design in computer managed testing (CMT) cover instructions to testees, their physical format, provision of practice items, and time limit information; test item presentation, physical format, discussion of task demands, review capabilities, and rate of presentation; pedagogically helpful utilities; typefonts; vocabulary;…

Summarizes item review in the development of criterion-referenced tests, including logical item review, which examines the match between instructional intent and the items; empirical item review, which examines response patterns; traditional item review; and instructional sensitivity of test items. Twenty-eight references are listed. (MBR)

Reviews seven commercially produced test generator programs appropriate for use by classroom teachers or individual instructors and identifies item construction and test formatting features that facilitate test design and delivery. Test generator programs and their manufacturers are listed. (MBR)