Achievement in Modern Foreign Languages in Negro Colleges of America

Abstract

Achievement in Modern Foreign Languages in Negro Colleges of is a study designed to focus attention on language teaching and learning in Negro Colleges of America with the view of measuring and implementing progress. The study grew out of discussions with Professor Frederic D. Cheydleur, of the Department of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin, who has during the past twenty years directed testing programs at the University of Wisconsin and in other institutions of learning and who supervised this research for the doctorate. Specifically, the aims of the study are to sketch historically the use of language tests; to measure achievement in three of the Modern Foreign Languages-French, German, and Spanish-in Negro Colleges; to consider the value of a standardized testing urogram; and to stimulate keener analysis of individual and group accomplishment in languages so that language study may have increased significance for personal, social, national, and international living. Why test ? This is a question to which numerous test experts in education and psychology have given short and long answers considering the student's standpoint and the stand-