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"Heaven's Messengers" begins with the death of six young people--three in Mexico, two in the United States, and one in Spain.
All are admitted to heaven by St. Peter and given special assignments to interview six important personages in the conquest of Mexico: Hernando Cortes, Pedro de Alvarado, and Martin Lopez (the last far less well known, but he was a master carpenter and boat builder who constructed thirteen small vessels that were launched on Lake Texcoco and provided a naval component that proved vitally important to the success of the conquest); Dona Marina and Isabel Moctezuma,...

Reseach in cognitive science and psychology has yielded an improved understanding of the nature of knowledge and cognitive skills that psychological testing attempts to measure. This volume presents some accomplishments in the effort to bring testing and cognitive theory together.

During the past two or three decades, research in cognitive science and psychology has yielded an improved understanding of the fundamental psychological nature of knowledge and cognitive skills that psychological testing attempts to measure. These theories have reached sufficient maturity, making it reasonable to look upon them to provide a sound theoretical foundation for assessment, particulary for the content of assessments. This fact, combined with much discontentedness over current testing practices, has inspired efforts to bring testing and cognitive theory together to create a new...