ABSTRACT
The call for reform in assessment is being heard from outside as well as inside the field of education. From outside, The National Commission on Testing and Public Policy published a 1990 report entitled: From Gatekeeper to Gateway: Transforming Testing in America. The report recommended that public schools:
revise how they develop and use human talent by restructuring educational testing,
limit reliance upon multiple choice testing since it lacks accountability, leads to unfairness in the allocation of opportunity, and undermines vital social policies,
cease using test scores as the single measure in making important decisions about individuals and their competencies, and
promote greater development of all Americans with alternative forms of assessment so that testing opens gates of opportunity rather than closing them off.
