This paper describes how to conduct a session to address the increasing presence of standardized testing and its impact on reform in mathematics classrooms. A brief history of testing and the impact of testing on teaching and learning are presented. Focusing on the consequences for educational equity that come from conducting state and national…

An extensive review of literature related to the role of standardized tests in the assessment of young children was conducted, and recommendations were made for alternative approaches more appropriate to the assessment of young children. The first section of the paper contains a literature review that provides a brief history of standardized tests…

This paper provides a brief history of attempts to monitor testing in the United States. It describes proposals for monitoring from the first attempts in the 1920s to similar proposals in the 1990s. The discussion focuses on: (1) Giles Ruche's proposal for a consumer research bureau on tests; (2) Oscar K. Burros' reviews of tests and efforts to…

Student scores on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) tests are increasingly being used for administrative purposes. Promotion and placement decisions are largely governed by FCAT performance. Although efforts are made to make the FCAT scores available as soon as possible, for some purposes they are not on hand when needed.…

The author discusses a method of using standardized tests in a multivariate statistical framework for making student placement decisions. (RWP)

Author states that his best asset is the value his faculty places upon his services. (RK)

Teachers should begin to evaluate student achievement and weakness before the start of the school year in order to more fully evaluate pupil growth within the classroom. (AN)

Summary of address to 1971 AFT-QuEST Truth-&-Soul-in-Teaching" conference. (RT)

Discusses a new procedure developed by the Center for the Study of Evaluation for evaluating standardized elementary school tests. (JF)

Warns that scores on standardized reading tests which fall at or below the chance level should be disregarded and suggests that teachers administer a lower level of the same test. Table. (RW)