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Peer reviewedVold, David J. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1985
Testing of teacher competence is traced from colonial times to the present. Various forms of teacher testing were commonplace up through the nineteenth century. A major educational reform movement in the early twentieth century succeeded in eliminating teacher tests in favor of proper and uniform preparation through teacher education. (BS)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
