1978_10 The Daily Collegian October 1978

              The Daily Collegian
The Patty Cotegian
Standardized test bill signed by Governor
Landmark legislation, which for the
first time opens up the books of the
standardized testing companies, was
signed by the Governor today
Authored by Senator John Dunlap
(D-Napa), SB 2005 requires producers
of standardized tests to disclose both
detailed financial and 'truth-in-test-
ing" information to students, independent researchers and the public
Sponsored by the UC Student Lobby,
SB 2005 requires testing corporations
-copies of old tests which are equivalent in content to those tests currently
in use, and the corresponding correct
technical data bearing on the quality
and validity of the tests,
reports on the predictability and
standard error of the tests,
financial data detailing test costs
and revenues,
all available "trvrth-ln-testlng information to both students and California
postsecondary education institutions
that use the tests
'Every high school, college, and
graduate student in California is virtually at the mercy of standardized
tests." said UC Student Lobby Co-
Director Bret Hewitt "Our hope is that
SB 2005 will help both students and the
public to understand the shortcomings
As postsecondary education institutions have become increasingly reliant
on   test   scores   for   admission   and
placement purposes, a number of significant issues have arisen about test
validity, reported cultural bias, alleged
excessive costs, and domination of the
industry by one testing agency
Most of the tests are produced by the
Educational Testing Service (ETS)
which controls about 80% of the testing
market. Tests manufactured by ETS
include the Scholastic Aptitude Test
(SAT), the Law School Admissions
Test (LSAT), and the Graduate Record
Exam (CRE)
Other tests regulated by SB 2005
include the. Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) and the American
College Testing admissions test (ACT)
'ETS is accountable to no outside or
public agency,* Dunlap said, 'and the
monopolistic power it wields over the
lives of millions and the revenues and
political power it generates for itself
shows a private industry accountable to
nobody by itself "
'In the past decade,* Dunlap added,
'increasing reliance by colleges and mation bill, SB 2005 is a stronger ver-
graduate schools on test scores has sion of  similar standardized testing
triKgered a matching concern about the legislation which failed to pass commit-
consequences of that relianoe on equal- tees in both the New York Legislature
ity of opportunity * and the United States Congress. SB
Commenting  after the  Governors 2005 is the first legislation of its kind to
signing, Hewitt said. This is the first be enacted in the country
step in exerting some control over the S82005 will become law on Juanuary
standardized tests which have been 1, 1979, although it was the legisla-
controtling students' lives for far too lure's   intention  that   its   provisions
long. The time has come to put these apply to the current year as well.
tests in proper perspective in our educational systems.*
International studies info
Applications   for  the   International *or*d, while receiving credit on the
Programs of t!>e California State Uni California State Campus
versity and Colleges are now available For more trrfortnation, contact Rta,
for study during the  1979-60 school Barbara,  or  Lee,   International   Pro
The International Programs allows Student Counseling Office, Joyal Ad-
students to study for one year in one ministrati-m, room 211; phone 4*7-
ot thirteen countries throughout the      2782.
'State Hornet defies settlement
understood Young's c
'cost factor,* Marqua said, 'True,
we're an AS newspaper. We're not that
big on the totem pole. But still we are a
'F-eedom of the press is involved
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First Amendment rights of freedom of
Although a spokesman for the university said the administration was
'staying completely out of it,' viewing tt as 'an internal matter between
the Hornet and the Associated Students,* the CSUS Journalism Dept
has taken a stand on the issue.
"It's not ethical for lawyers to make
agreements out of court for people
without talking to the people involved, *
said Ralph Talbert, acting chairman of
the department
State Hornet's stories on the n
Associated Press Sacramento Bureau
Chief Doug Willis* was quoted as saying, 'Professionally and ethically you
(the Hornet) are in the right.'
United Press International Editor
Rob Gunnison said, 'It has always been
my experience that when an out-of-
court settlement involving running a
without any explanation.*
The  State   Hornet   quoted   Kevin
Stevens, chairman of the ASI   Exe
cutive Board as having said   *We fund
newspaper's  publishers and reserve
the right to dictate what goes in it "
The State Harriet s Friday editorial
on the settlement began with a quote
from one of the Church of Scientolo-
iy'i
ihould  be  in  the  newspaper s   con
rol.-
Ken   Harvey,  city  desk   editor  of
n opm-
jpon the opinions of others '
Church of Scientology spokespersons
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