Graduate training programs in evaluation and measurement: A report of the Test Use Committee of Division 5.

In furtherance of its efforts to increase the effectiveness of the use of psychological and educational tests, the American Psychological Association's Division 5 (Evaluation and Measurement) appointed a Test Use Committee in the fall of 1954. At the time of appointing this committee, its mission was to carry on where the Committee on Test Standards left off and its particular concern would be to consider problems of training test users and to study other ways in which services involving the use of tests could be improved. After some study, the committee decided that an appropriate starting point for its activity would be to conduct a survey of the training programs, course offerings, and placement procedures for high level specialists in the field of measurement, since such specialists exercise a major influence on the use of tests. In the summer of 1956 a questionnaire was mailed to 83 Division 5 members who were deemed likely to have some connection with measurement and evaluation training programs at the graduate level. The questionnaire items and the responses are summarized in this report. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)