did not apply to their jobs. The ratings were highly consistent across
measurement areas; the majority of the respondents felt that their
abilities were good or very good. Very few respondents rated their
abilities as very poor. The respondents were next asked to rate the
importance of the same measurement areas to their jobs. The ratings
given by the total sample are displayed in Table 6. The respondents
rated most of the areas as important or very important. The ratings
of the two areas concerning the administration and interpretation of
standardized tests, although still fairly high, were markedly lower
than those given to the other areas. The results reported in Tables 5
and 6 were highly similar across training groups; hence, they were not
broken down by those groups.