Next, Theodore Marchese, of the American Association for Higher Education, sets the concern for basic academic skills development in the larger context of the assessment and education reform movements.

We end Part One with an edited transcript of the panel discussion that closed the NES conference last spring. Wilhelmina Delco, William Sanford, Pamela Tackett (of the Texa s Education Agency), and William Hardesty (former president of Southwest Texas State University) were the panelists.

In Part Two, "Components of the Texas Approach," we reproduce several documents that pre-dated or resulted from the TASP. They include the 1986 report of the Committee on Testing of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; the legislation that led to the creation of the TASP; rules and regulations recently adopted by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; a TASP Test program summary; a document listing the skills on which the TASP Test will be based; the bias-prevention manual used by those involved in test development; and the registration bulletin to be used by students planning to take the TASP Test.

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