Introduction

Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE), the Advanced Placement Program (APP), the National Teacher Examinations (NTE), and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The results of this periodic data retrieval have been valuable. Test scores, designed-with the exception of NAEP scores-to serve students and the schools to which they apply, have been used to show trends in the developed verbal and quantitative ability of students who report they intend to major in math or science or engineering. (We prefer the term developed ability over aptitude for the kind of skill measured by the SAT and the GRE.) There are, however, undesirable aspects in this spasmodic data retrieval.