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Minimum Competency Testing: Helpful or Harmful to High-Level Skills?

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Mangino, Evangelina; Babcock, Marilyn A. – 1986

A study was designed to assess the effects of the introduction of a state-mandated minimum competency test (MCT) on students' acquisition of basic and high-level mathematics skills. Subjects of the study were ninth-grade students, all of whom attended the same schools in the Austin (Texas) Independent School District, and took the same form of the…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Grade 9

Comparing Scores on the California Achievement Test (CAT) to Scores on the Sequential Test of Educational Progress (STEP).

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Holley, Freda M. – 1976

To explain the discrepancy between median scores on the 1976 administration of the California Achievement Tests (CAT) and the Sequential Tests of Educational Progress (STEP) in the Austin Independent School District (AISD), ten technical variables typical of achievement tests were considered as explanations. (1) The STEP may measure different…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum