The National Education Association (NEA) Task Force on Testing's position statement on educational and psychological testing, originally presented at the 1973 Representative Assembly of NEA, is reinforced for the 1975 assembly. In summary, the task force believes that the major use of tests should be to improve instruction--to diagnose learning difficulties and to plan learning activities in response to learning needs. Tests must not be used in any way to label and classify students, to track students into homogeneous groups, to determine educational programs, to perpetuate an elitism, or to maintain some groups and individuals in their place near the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. In short, tests must not be used in ways that will deny any student full access to equal educational opportunity. Furthermore, the task force encourages NEA to continue seeking appropriate ways of countering the widespread misuses and abuses of testing as they relate to evaluation of students and teachers, particularly those with different economic, cultural, or linguistic backgrounds. Important court decisions concerning testing are presented. Position papers developed by the task force are described, and a brief bibliography is appended. (Author/MV)