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Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Part 1: National evaluation of educational systems -- 1. The problem of evaluating national educational systems / de Groot, Adriaan D. -- 2. National evaluation of educational systems: A recent study on the evaluation of 20 educational systems by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement / Postlethwaite, T. Neville -- 3. National evaluation of educational systems: New roles and new methods / Wolf, Richard M. -- 4. National Assessment of Educational Progress: The measurement of change in achievement / Ahmann, J. Stanley -- 5. Foundation, functions and future of CITO, the National Institute for Test Development in the Netherlands / Thio, Djien K. -- Part 2: New tests: Construction and use -- 6. The criterion-referenced test: Its meaning and difficulties / Henrysson, Sten -- 7. On the evaluation of criterion-referenced tests / Wedman, Ingemar -- 8. Procedures and issues in the development of criterion-referenced tests / Klein, Stephen P. -- 9. Criterion-referenced assessment / Smith, Charles W. -- 10. Moderation of a school-based assessment in integrated studies by means of a monitoring test / Macintosh, H.G. -- Part 3: New approaches to testing: Formative evaluation and diagnostic -- 11. The role of values in evaluation: Methodological strategies for educational improvement / Messick, Samuel -- 12. Formative evaluation and educational practice / Wijnen, Wynand H. -- 13. Formative evaluation : Interpretation and participation / Cox, Roy -- 14. The effects of formative evaluation on student performance / Arlin, Marshall N. -- 15. Testing as teaching / Rosenfield, Abby G. / Pizzi, William / Kopera, Anthony / Loos, Frank -- Part 4: Testing to fit new teaching techniques: Grouping and individualization -- 16. Aptitude-treatment interactions in educational research and evaluation / Snow, Richard E. -- 17. ATI research: For better psychological insights or for better educational practice? / Salomon, Gavriel -- 18. Product and process in teaching and testing / Crombag, Hans F. -- 19. Improving aptitude and achievement measures in the study of aptitude-treatment interactions / Koran, Mary Lou -- 20. Carroll's model of school learning as a basis for enlarging the aptitude-treatment interaction concept / Gaines, W. George / Jongsma, Eugene A. -- 21. Student initiated testing: The base for a new educational system / Allen, Michael W. -- Appendix 1: Abstract of submitted contributions not published in full -- Appendix 2: List of participants -- Name index -- Subject index