Earlier this week I rediscovered the Essential Skills Assessments: Information Skills (ESA:IS) (2001) teacher’s manual and the accompanying CD of tests (photo) sitting in the bottom of the book shelf for at least the last 10 years. The tests were developed between 1997-2000 by Cedric Croft, Karyn Dunn, and Gavin Brown on behalf of the New Zealand Council of Educational Research(NZCER), and emerged out of the earlier Progressive Achievement Tests: Study Skills (1978).