The activities of the Nucleus Testing Committee of the Madison County (Wisconsin) Schools in developing a new student testing program are discussed, and suggestions for the development of appropriate testing procedures are given. An individualized learning packet, developed by the author, using the psychological and educational modalities of learning as a pre-requisite to developing a body of content which logically would follow the structure and stage sequence of cognitive learning is provided as an appendix to the paper. It is concluded that criterion-referenced or program-fair assessment techniques utilizing sampling procedures is far more advantageous as a testing or evaluation device than is the normative approach to testing. (DB)