"We're looking for problem-solving ability and information processing, not recall," said Lyn Schaefer, director of test development.
Ray Nicosia, the executive director of test security for the Educational Testing Service, said the company had retired the exams that were made available on the Princeton Review Web site and now sells them to tutorial companies.
Raymond Nicosia, the testing company's director of test security, said that impersonations were a small fraction of those cases, perhaps 150 a year — company officials previously said there were only a few — and that 750 people were generally turned away at test centers because of questionable identification.
One of the most vocal experts was Dr. Philip E. Coyle III, the Defense Department's director of testing and evaluation.
"Terms like multitasking imply equal attention," said Mike Bloxham, director of testing and assessment at Ball State.
Mark Connelly, the director of testing for Consumer Reports magazine, counters that "there are self-cleaning ranges that last a long, long time, like decades".
Her mother works in Branchburg as the national director of testing for Imagine Schools, a charter schools company based in Arlington, Va.
Last month in a public report, Philip E. Coyle 3rd, the Defense Department's director of testing and evaluation, faulted the antimissile tests as insufficiently realistic "to support acquisition decisions".
In February, Philip E. Coyle III, the Defense Department's director of testing and evaluation, faulted the antimissile tests as insufficiently realistic to make decisions about moving from research to building the weapon.
Philip E. Coyle III, the former director of testing for the Pentagon, said that had the system malfunctioned in a real attack, a battle manager might have continued firing interceptors at a target that had been destroyed, wasting precious weapons.
This week a report by the Defense Department's director of testing and evaluation, Philip E. Coyle III, complained that Mr. Clinton's "artificial" timetable ignored major technical problems and put the Pentagon under unnecessary pressure to reach an early and possibly flawed decision.
