goals. It is interesting to note that the plans for national assessment were in progress several years prior to passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. This Act signified the end of local control due to its call for the installation of an accountability system in each of the state departments of education applying for federal assistance. It should be noted that included on the Standing Advisory Committee and its pool of
“experts” in the behavioral sciences were: David R. Krathwohl (co-author with Benjamin Bloom of The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Affective Domain) of the College of Education at Michigan State University; Urie Bonfenbrenner of the Department of Sociology at Cornell University; and Ralph W. Tyler of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto, California.]