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San-Antonio, Florida based Harcourt Assessment, one of the largest test publishers in the U.S. has set up a research advisory board to help guide its in-house studies on key topics in assessment, with the goal of launching, an ongoing series of reports that would begin appearing at the end of the year 2004 on the company's Web site. John Olson, who joined the testing company as its vice president for psychometrics and research services last fall, said that in addition to helping set Harcourt's research agenda, the five-member board would review internal proposals and research papers.