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Evaluation and Assessment

Competency testing is the latest development in the accountability syndrome, this time measuring the level of skills students achieve. States and communities throughout the country are seeking verification that their youngsters are prepared to be literate and productive citizens. What all this means to administrators is that they, as the executives who run the nation’s schools, had better be on the leading edge of evaluating the competencies and achievements of everyone in the school community-from students and teachers to themselves and programs. The public will accept nothing less from those entrusted with the administration of its schools. For that reason, we present in this Bulletin several articles on this extremely important subject. Readers who recall earlier issues that have focused on accountability, evaluation, and supervision will find the subject has taken on new dimension, even in the last year. Several dominant messages in these articles in this Bulletin recur again and again, calling our attention to the following facts: