The National Commission on Testing and Public Policy is conducting a 3-year policy-oriented investigation of the role of tests, especially standardized, norm-referenced tests, in the allocation of educational, training, and employment opportunities in the United States today. This document reports on the first hearing, which focused on the concerns of Asian and Pacific Americans (APAs). Testimony on the following issues is summarized: (1) Cultural and Linguistic Sources of Bias and Unfairness in the Informal Assessment of Asian Americans; (2) The Testing of Prospective Teachers in Hawaii; (3) Test Scores as Indicators of Educational Problems; (4) The Assessment of the Education of Native Hawaiians; (5) Modification of Standardized Tests Administered to Special APA Populations; (6) Testing and the Identification of Appropriate Educational Services for Limited English Proficient APA Students; (7) Research, Development, and Policy Issues Pertaining to Tests, Testing, and APAs; (8) Testing and APAs in California; (9) Testing Research and Test Taker Rights; (10) Ethics of Educational Testing; (11) Test Scores and the Ethnic Minority Index; and (12) Testing and the Educational Status of Native Hawaiians. Other testing issues of concern to APAs, but not covered in the hearings, are the following: (1) out-of-level testing; (2) special norms and renorming; (3) non-comparability of English language assessment tests; (4) testing in a language other than English; (5) test conditions and test sophistication; and (6) APA representation in test debias procedures. A list of 21 references is included. (BJV)