There are signs that a more extensive requirement of formal
measurement coursework will soon be adopted by many teacher
education programs. A joint committee of AACTE, AFT, NCME, and
NEA representatives has recently completed the Standards for Teacher
Competence in Educational Assessment of Students (AACTE/ AFT /
NCME/NEA Joint Committee, 1989) the development of which is
described in the chapter by James Sanders in this volume (chapter 7).
If adopted, the Standards may serve as the needed impetus for
curricular change in teacher education programs. Such changes
would have a profound impact on the measurement training of
aspiring teachers, gradually leading to improvement in the skill levels
of the population of practicing teachers.