Minimum competency testing will help restore concern for cognitive development to the highest priority, and motivate teachers to teach more purposefully and students to work harder. A discussion of the kinds of tests to be used is included. (Author/IRT)

Based on the Florida experience, one should expect, among other things, new problems for minority students, lawsuits against the tests, calls for tests of teachers, and scapegoating and blaming. (Author/IRT)

Reviewed are the technical problems in the work of Grill and Bartel who attempted to demonstrate that a bias exists in the Grammatical Closure subtest of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities against speakers of nonstandard English. (SBH)

Outlines an 11-point system that includes academic competition within the schools, voluntary review programs, and a program of studies that is at the heart of the total curriculum. (Author/IRT)

Discussed is the use of profile analysis of subtest scores on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised as a basis for educational programing for learning disabled students, and noted is the lack of evidence suggesting the use of these profile analyses in planning remedial programs. (IM)

The Token Test and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children were administered to 46 nonretarded children (6-17 years old) with learning problems. (Author)

Study of parents' and teachers' attitudes toward children's reading ability showed that actual reading performance is more important than letter grades and standardized test scores. (JM)

Critics of standardized tests support new legislation to provide breakdowns of test results by sex, race, and ethnic group, confident they will find evidence of bias. (MSE)

A comparison was made between test results of teacher education students at the sixty-six state approved teacher education programs in Texas. Twenty-nine of the institutions are NCATE accredited. The purpose was to see if NCATE accrediation affected the student passing rate. Results are presented. (MT)

Attempts to understand educational quality have created an ever-increasing set of measures and approaches. Issues regarding assessment of student learning, teacher effectiveness, and school effectiveness are discussed. (MT)

Teachers concerned about excessive testing may be depriving themselves of useful information provided by standardized achievement tests and their own exams. Teachers tend to separate testing from teaching. This article explores the relationship among data collection, curriculum planning, and instruction and gauges the impacts of mandated…

This article discusses the tensions between the liberal and specialist parts of a teacher's education, and considers the difficulty in nurturing a sense of creative inquiry in an educational world dominated by the standardization of tests, curricula, and texts. (Author/MT)