ABSTRACT
Over the past 10 years approximately 30 state legislatures and Congress have considered legislation related to procedures and policies of testing organizations. There is public concern about the importance placed on tests at all levels of the educational process but particularly as tests are used for admission to postsecondary educational institutions and for entry to various professions and occupations. Although calls have been made to focus testing more toward helping people learn, their use as a sorting mechanism remains dominant (Glaser, 1981). It is this use and the ever-growing public awareness of it that has drawn issues related to testing into the legislative forum as well as the courts.
