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Education TodayThe Vastness Of TestingBy Patrida McCormack 1 Uniled Press InternationalPRINCETON, N.J.—The biggest academic testing service in America operates from eight buildings on a 400-acre campus near Princeton, N.J.Educational Testing Service and its 2,000 workers help to develop and'process more than a million examinations a year. Included: Scholastic achievement tests taken by 1.4 million college-bound h igh school students annually; the Law School admissions test given to'136,000 last year; graduate record examinations^and many more.Last year the non-profit organization took in $63 million, mostly in fees for tests.Best known for the college board or scholastic achievement tests, Educational Testing Service does much more.Clients include educational organizations, agencies and associations; federal, state and municipal agencies; foun-datioifs; occupational and professional associations.An'attractive conference center on the Educational Testing Service campus is the scene of think tanks formed to focus on educatiori problems nationally and worldwide.Right now educators from 13 countries are meeting here to gethands-^on experience in the designing and evaluating of tests.Educational Testing has no connection with Princeton University, The “Princeton” in the mailing address is for the town of Princeton. The Educational Testing “campus” is in Lawrence Township, four; miles from Princeton, N.J.‘•The vastness of the Educational Testing operation was observed during a tour of the campus, interviews with some of its officers and experts, and a persual of its annual report.Included among the brain-trust: 150 Ph. D.s, plus 200 with master's degrees.Among the 600 on the professional staff are experts in diverse fields* ranging from education and administration to psychology, sociology, economics, statistics, computers, testing and management.Educational Testing Service is a private, non-profit . organization devoted to measurement and research,primarily in education. It was founded in 1947 by the American Council on Education, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the College Entrance Examinations Board.Dr. William W. Turnbull, the $70,000-a-year president, has been with the organization as a senior executive since its inception.His current problems include questions about accountability from Ralph Nader’s investigators.Educational Testing Service denies that it is less than fullyaccountabletoits clients and board. The tests are under constant redesigning to better fit needs of changing student populations.Juanita M, Kreps, United States Secretary of Commerce now, was chairman of Educational Testing Service for four years, her term ending last year. She was vice president of Duke University during her term.The current chairman, Paul F. Sharp, is president of the University of Oklahoma. Alsoon the board are top officials of other educational organizations, businesses and schools.Among research studies recently completed at Educational Testing Service were the following:-Four, for the federal government, are expected to have considerable effects on the administration and funding of elementary and secondary schools. They deal with the education of disadvantaged children, racial desegregation, compensatory reading programs and the funding of compensatory education.-At the Educational, Testing Service Infant Laboratory, research psychologists are in the. iniddle-stage of a three-•year, study of,handicapped infants for the United States Office of Education’s Bureau of Education of the Handicapped. Several hundred handicapped infants, up to age three, are being studied in asn effort to identify the specific competencies they need for proper social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development. The study will lead to methods teachers may use to identify specific disabilities in students.
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Sandpoint Daily Bee
Sandpoint, Idaho, US
Mon, Jul 25, 1977
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