This report summarizes the proceedings and outcomes of a working conference of experts, scholars, and educators, held at Stanford University on February 19-20, 1976. The goal of the conference was to discuss and improve tests constructed as part of an effort to improve the teaching of children who speak one or more varieties of Black English. The tests deal with teachers' knowledge and attitudes related to the history and structure of Black English and reading instruction. Presentations of the tests, discussions in small working groups, comments and criticisms in a general session, and a panel discussion with members of the community all led to the incorporation of a number of important modifications in the preliminary versions of the tests. (Author)