A study of undergraduate student attitudes toward student evaluation at the University of Melbourne, Australia, focused on purposes and form of assessment, relationship between attitudes and subject field, and between objections and poor academic performance. Findings showed students believe assessment should be more flexible and cover a larger…

A test of the concept of horizontality was devised to examine the performance of a sample of 861 Australian school children in grades 1 to 6 tested in their classrooms. (Editor)

In 1983-84, the Center for the Study of Community Colleges developed and field tested an instrument, the General Academic Assessment (GAA) student survey, to assess community college students' knowledge in several liberal arts areas, including the humanities. The GAA was completed by a sample of 8,024 students at four large, urban community…

Guidelines for test developers and users are provided to insure that construction and selection of test instruments are conducted fairly. In addition to development and selection, issues of interpretation of scores; provision of information to test takers; and prevention of test bias based on race, gender, or ethnicity are addressed. Twenty-one…

The Subcommittee on Truth in Testing of the Interim Joint Committee on Education was formed in response to Senate Resolution 43 of the 1982 Kentucky General Assembly. Its task was to study the questions regarding the effectiveness and equity of standardized testing, which has become an important part of the academic experience of public school…

This report discusses five issue areas in which it is believed substantial improvements in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) might be achieved. The unifying themes among these issues are to increase the visibility of NAEP, its relevance to policymakers, and its utility to state and local agencies. The first of five substantive…

Five papers given at a conference on the role of testing in the teaching profession are presented. The conference partners included the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Educational Testing Service, Center for Fair and Open Testing, and National Education Association. The following issues are discussed: appropriate uses of…

Developed as a guide to resources in the Robert E. Kennedy Library at California Polytechnic State University, this bibliography includes a selective listing of books, microfiche, and reference materials on the topic of educational and psychological testing. The publications included either contain sample or entire test items, and…

This article focused on societal reaction to deviance, definers rather than the defined, on the presupposition that because the deviant is one so labelled, by studying the definers one is also indirectly studying the nature of the defined. (Author/RK)

The "Standard Written English" test newly added to the Scholastic Aptitude Test is reactionalry, unscholarly, and potentially discriminatory. (JH)

Described a program designed to improve each student's ability to discriminate sounds, increase listening skills, improve the use of oral English and indirectly to improve reading abilities (vocabulary and comprehension). (Author/RK)

In a program of research conducted for the Scottish Council for Research in Education, students' test scores together with background information such as Verbal Reasoning Quotient and father's occupation were compared against performance in the Scottish Certificate of Education "O" Grade examination taken at age 16. (Editor/RK)

Recounts the negative experiences two cities had with districtwide testing programs. (IRT)

Reviews the 1974 Standards, an updating serving as a guide to test making and publishing, and training of persons for these endeavors. (DEP)