Describes changes in the testing and grading formats of a biology learning-for-mastery program precipitated by rising enrollments, loss of classroom space, decreases in the number of graduate teaching assistants, and student abuses of the system. (GS)

Reviewed are resources in mathematics instruction for the teacher of learning disabled children. (DB)

The hypotheses, methods, and results of the mathematics portion of the International Project for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement are discussed. Several issues are raised in this critical review of the project and its findings. (SD)

This bibliography is divided as follows: general, academic profession, administration, case studies, examination, reform and planning, and language. (PG)

British educators wish to replace the dual arrangement of 16+ examinations with a single system, but desire further preparation and training before changes are implemented. (CK)

Interrelationships between two motivational variables, test-anxiety and curiosity, and two cognitive variables, convergent and divergent thinking were tested using the measures of convergent and divergent thinking of J. P. Guilford and two self-report true-false scales of test-anxiety and curiosity. (Editor)

A questionnaire that assessed the practice of charging special fees for counseling, testing, and outreach programs was sent to directors of university counseling centers. Charging fees for counseling services is a practice of 4 percent of the respondents, while fees for testing has increased from 11 percent to 34 percent over a 10-year period.…

Sixty subjects, 30 volunteers and 30 nonvolunteers, participated in an experiment examining pretest sensitization effects. Two interpretations of these effects--the commitment hypothesis and the demand interpretation--are explored. (Author)

This study investigated the relationship between number of test attempts and review exam performance by undergraduates taking personalized introductory courses. Correlation analyses revealed no significant negative, and one significant positive relationship. Students who repeat quizzes are acquiring as much or more content than nonrepeaters.…

Critically analyzes selected intelligence test items from commonly used standardized tests. (DW)

Attempts to clarify the position concerning the giving of options in choosing questions on examination papers, and provokes thinking on the curricular and measurement problems associated with it. (Author/PG)

A study was conducted to identify adult basic education (ABE) teachers' perceptions of the positive and negative results of formal testing and to obtain descriptive information concerning typical testing practices in U.S. ABE programs. One thousand twenty surveys, in packets of 20 each, were mailed to 50 ABE state directors and the District of…

This paper presents two general approaches to the assessment of knowledge structures, the first of which entails the building of empirical evidence to support cognitive theory. This type of assessment is concerned with attempting to prove the existence of various knowledge structures; that is, evidence that leads to the construct validity of these…

The overall strength of the musculature does not require testing of large numbers of muscle groups and can be accomplished from three or four tests. Small batteries of strength tests have been devised to predict total strength. The best combination of tests for males are thigh flexors, leg extensors, arm flexors, and pectoralis major. The battery…