Notes that the same students who according to a reading test, were severly deficient in reading skills were mysteriously able to complete a complex research questionnaire, and showed academic success far beyond what the test predicted. (Author/AM)

This reply to William A. Mehrens argues that although some psychometricians are reluctant to endorse the use of test data for educational decision making, it is desirable that measurement specialists provide decision makers with practical, understandable ways to use test data. (JAZ)

Demands for educational excellence are hard to answer because definitions of excellence differ, and excellence may not be readily quantifiable. Current reforms seem aimed at educational adequacy and standardization rather than at realizing individual potential. Reforms should probably focus less on testing and more on student motivation. (PGD)

Partially replicates Elkind and Bowen's (1979) investigation of adolescent egocentrism. Studies the relations between imaginary audience and operational thought by testing children and adolescents on a Piagetian-based written test of operational thought and the Imaginary Audience Scale. (Author/AS)

In an attempt to restore the symmetry and balance between the study of person and item variation, this paper presents a novel methodology construct specification equations, which allows one to ascertain from the lawful behavior of items what an instrument is measuring. (Author/PN)

The perception exists that the massive infusion of resources into public education has done nothing to bolster student achievement scores and that American students' scores on international assessments rank far below the scores of students from other countries. These perceptions are examined in this booklet. The focus is on education productivity…

Many teaching methods investigated in higher education have been examined by social work educators, except for mastery learning. Mastery learning is a behavioral teaching method used successfully in higher education. Achievement is held constant and time allowed is varied, rather than holding time constant and allowing student achievement to vary.…

Author advocates that, of the various approaches to evaluation, school systems should be working toward the development of a feedback model of evaluation and should be concentrating most of their efforts on that. (MB)

Purpose of this study was to explore the measurement of social attitudes by using attitude referents as stimuli; to assess the psychometric properties of an attitude scale constructed with referents; and to test aspects of a structural theory of attitudes. (Author/MB)

Instrument, measuring 7th grade student knowledge of the world of work, was developed by the Pennsylvania Department of Education for consideration as part of the state assessment project. (Authors/MB)

The case for using one's schooling successfully in nonschool life may have to be made not on the endurance of memory, but rather on selective forgetting. (Author)

Suggests that in order to evaluate the effectiveness of instructional procedures for the production of students who can both critically analyze and produce ideas, science teachers need to re-examine their measurement procedures in the light of the "new science curricular goals. Examples of test items that fit the "new curricular philosophy and…