As part of the objective-based component of the Statewide Evaluation and Assessment Program, New Mexico school districts have selected local priority objectives for the past 3 years. As a means of assessing the districts' progress toward achieving these objectives, objective-based measures for the most frequently chosen objectives are administered in each district in the spring semester of the school year. In a continuing effort to keep the public informed of the current activities within the Statewide evaluation effort, this document has been prepared to explain the manner in which school districts select and rate specific basic cognitive skill objectives, describe any Statewide trends relating to the objectives being selected as priorities, and provide the reader with a summary of this year's priority goals as compared to those of the previous year. (Author/JF)