Results suggest, first, that the test anxiety scale, both the worry and the emotionality components, is stable over at least a ten week period and, secondly, that this stability is not disrupted by the situational input of variations and examinations stress. (Author)

Lists typical responses by educators to the demand for professional accountability and states that a good accountability system would help increase professionalism. (Author)

Using clinicians employed in Minnesota and Kansas, an attempt was made to describe and quantify clinical judgment pertaining to perceived degree of pathology associated with low scores. The results showed Minnesota judges generally regarding low scores as representing less pathology than Kansas judges. Several factors limit generalizing however.…

A scheme using the usual testing methods of most professors, but allowing students to discover their weak areas during the course without fear of low grades. (IR)

In a study to investigate accuracy of self-reported grades, length of time between testing and high school graduation was apparently the reason for a significant loss in accuracy in recalling grade reports of highschool graduates and college applicants who had been out of school for more than one year. (IR)

Examines the role of psychological testing within the business environment. Outlines four guidelines for people who use tests to make decisions about other people: (1) use a broad-brush approach; (2) look for the whole person; (3) do not rely on testing alone; and (4) let people see their results. (CT)

Compares outcomes of the 1970 and 1977 weighted standardization samples for the subtests of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. On the whole, achievement appears to be consistent between tests for the fourth- and eighth-grade students and no one basic skill shows marked gains or losses. (Author/IRT)

The author, a principal, argues that students and their parents should have access to corrected standardized and achievement tests, and describes proposed state legislation supporting this position that he lobbied for in Massachusetts. (IRT)

A relatively simple method is developed to obtain confidence intervals for a student's proportion of domain mastery in criterion-referenced or mastery measurement situations. The method uses the binomial distribution as a model for the student's scores under hypothetically repeated assessments, and it makes use of widely available "F"…

Despite heightened scrutiny of the use of standardized tests in college admissions, there has been little public empirical analysis of the effects of an optional SAT score submission policy on college admissions. This paper examines the results of the decision by Mount Holyoke College to make SAT scores optional in the admissions process. We find…

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) permits the Secretary of Education to use NAEP achievement level scores, in concert with other data, to confirm state testing results. The U.S. Department of Education has not yet published a guidance document describing how NAEP might be used appropriately. A review of the literature from the Department and…