National Assessment is a plan for a systematic, census-like survey of knowledges, skills, understandings, and attitudes designed to sample four age levels in ten different subject areas. It is an information-gathering program designed to provide both the educational community and the lay public with information about some of the direct outcomes of education as they are exhibited in students and young adults. The ten areas selected for assessment are Art, Career and Occupational Development, Citizenship, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Reading, Science, Social Studies, and Writing. Criteria of the National Assessment Committee in the setting of assessment of objectives include: (1) The objectives must be satisfactory goals for each subject area as seen by subject matter specialists; (2) The objectives must be ones which currently are accepted as goals of American education by most schools; and (3) The objectives must be ones which are acceptable to thoughtful lay adults as reasonable goals of American education. For related documents, see TM 001 793 and 797.) (Author/CK) Primary type of information provided by report: Program Description (Historical Background) (Operating Procedures) (Program Goals); Procedures (Conceptual).