The Assembly Education Committee of the New Jersey Office of Legislative Services held a hearing pursuant to Assembly Resolution 113, a proposal directing the Committee to investigate the skills testing program developed and administered to New Jersey children by the State Department of Education. The Committee was interested in the eighth-grade early warning test designed to identify students who might have problems with the proposed High School Proficiency Test. Testifying about the testing programs were: (1) Mary Lee Fitzgerald, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Education; (2) Leo Klagholz, Assistant Commissioner, Division of Academic Programs and Standards, New Jersey Department of Education; (3) Patricia Wang Iverson, private citizen; (4) Ellen Oppenheimer, private citizen; (5) Joseph G. Rosenstein, Ph.D., Mathematics Department, Rutgers - The State University, and Director, New Jersey Mathematics Coalition; (6) Patricia Clark Kenschaft, Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics, Montclair State College and Director, Project for Resourceful Instruction of Mathematics in the Elementary School-PRIMES; and (7) Ira Sweet, teacher, guidance counselor and school psychologist in the New Jersey Public School System. Several supplemental reports and correspondence introduced by those testifying are appended. (SLD)