The New Zealand Council for Educational Research provides a Test Advisory Service to its clients. The service provides information and advice on issues related to assessment to a range of test users from business, educational, health, vocational, and other settings. Data about this group and their information needs have been gathered only in a fragmentary and ad hoc manner. The present survey intended to obtain information about the practices and needs of test users in a systematic form.
Paper presented at the Inaugural International Test Users' conference, Sydney, 3-5 July 2002.