Part of the motivation for conducting this study concerns a
common attitude that often seems to be held regarding educational
problems. That is, although teacher educators will acknowledge that
there is a particular problem in education, they do not feel that the
problem is prevalent in their state. Because the lack of measurement
training in teachers has been known about for decades, and yet has
led to little change in teacher education practice, we suspect that an "it
really isn't a problem here" attitude may have contributed to the
small degree of change in teacher measurement training that has
occurred since Noll's (1955) study.