Tests are inevitably designed to measure students and therefore will affect both teaching techniques and the student's concept of what is important in learning. Standardized, objective high school English tests, which neglect the individual's needs or accomplishments, limit classroom freedom and the natural course of the curriculum. An integral component of the teaching process meaningful evaluation must grow out of the teaching situation and relate to such learning objectives as personal sensitivity, imagination, and creativity. An evaluation profile, whether designed to facilitate grading or college entrance decisions, is ideally based on multiple criteria (i.e., creative writing, individual projects, and participation in debates), accumulated by more than one method (i.e., multiple marking--weighing the reactions of several assessors to student work), and carried out over a long period of time. (MF)