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Mississippi State Dept. of Education, Jackson. Bureau of School Improvement. – 1987
Skills are listed that are to be introduced at the kindergarten level in Mississippi's schools. The list includes skills in the following areas: reading, English/language arts, accelerated English, mathematics, art, computer education, foreign language, health, physical education, music, oral communication, science, and social studies. Skills to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary School Curriculum, Kindergarten, Primary Education
Download full textWisconsin State Dept. of Natural Resources, Madison. – 1994
This report describes efforts of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to promote the teaching of hunting, fishing, and trapping skills. It is part of a three-pronged approach to assure the future of these activities in the state that will also include scientific management of fish and game resources and an analysis of factors and issues…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Environmental Education, Natural Resources, Nonformal Education
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Office of Program Evaluation and Research. – 1980
Designed to accompany a slide series called "Understanding Your Grade 3 California Assessment Program (CAP) Report," this package is the second in a series that has been produced in conjunction with the new third grade test. The slide series describes the contents of the Survey of Basic Skills report that contains respective school's…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, Filmstrips, Grade 3
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Instructional Technology. – 1986
This guide is designed for use by superintendents, district directors of instruction, curriculum writers, principals, and teachers in identifying and selecting instructional television (ITV) that will aid their schools in meeting specific instructional requirements of the Defined Minimum Program and continuing objectives of the Basic Skills…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Educational Television, Elementary Secondary Education
Instructional Objectives Exchange, Los Angeles, CA. – 1981
This pilot edition provides current information to local educators on the Spring 1981 Basic Skills Tests. Input forms are included as a means of obtaining information from district level curriculum coordinators and teachers on the utility of this guide. The guide is designed to be a tool for curriculum and instructional development consistent with…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Price, Lynn, Ed. – 1980
Guidelines are provided to assist New Jersey local school districts in improving and strengthening their graduation policies in accordance with the new law and regulations. Basic skills proficiency requirements have been enacted in Chapter 241, Laws of 1979. This law requires that students successfully pass tests in reading, writing and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Graduation Requirements, High Schools, Minimum Competency Testing
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. Div. of Operations, Research, and Evaluation. – 1980
The Comprehensive Basic Skills Program Review (CBSPR) is an essential part of the New Jersey public school evaluation and improvement process. This group of handbooks describes a process for analyzing existing school programs and practices in relation to those factors which have been identified through research to be associated with successful…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Southeastern Public Education Program, Columbia, SC. – 1983
The South Carolina Basic Skills Assessment Program (BSAP), a testing program, presents information to determine how successfully children in individual school districts are achieving the minimum basic skills required by South Carolina law. Each year BSAP tests are given to children entering the first grade and to children in grades 1, 2, 3, 6, 8,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement, Mathematics Skills
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Office of Program Evaluation and Research. – 1978
The profiles of the California Statewide assessment program permit comparison of a district's test performance with that of previous years and of other districts. After a brief explanation of the tests' development, content, administration, and limitations, this interpretive guide explains how the results are displayed in the district profiles. A…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Curriculum Development. – 1980
A process called focused holistic scoring has been developed for use in the Texas Assessment of Basic Skills to assess student performance on writing samples. This process is "holistic" because it evaluates a total piece of writing, and it is "focused" because it evaluates the writing in terms of two specific objectives…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment, Guidelines
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Student Assessment Section. – 1982
This guide is designed for educators involved in teaching, developing curriculum, or counseling students. It describes six new forms used to report the results of 10th-grade student performance on the Florida State Student Assessment Test, Parts I and II (SSAT-I and -II): (1) Parent Report, SSAT-I; (2) Student Report, SSAT-I; (3) Student Report,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Grade 10
Idaho State Board of Education, Boise. – 1977
Procedures for administering the Proficiency Testing Program, adopted by the Idaho State Department of Education, are explained in this test administration manual. The tests are described as given on a district optional basis to ninth grade students in the basic skills areas of reading, writing, spelling, and mathematics. Criterion-referenced…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Objectives, Educational Testing
Arkansas State Dept. of Education, Little Rock. – 1987
Provided as a framework for use in curriculum development are Arkansas' course content guides for the primary grades one, two, and three. At each grade level, language arts, mathematics, and reading skills have been identified at three instructional levels: basic, developmental, and extensional. Basic skills are those which all students must…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Enrichment Activities
Law, Alexander I. – 1982
This document presents more useful statewide testing as a rationale for a revision to the California Assessment Program (CAP). A brief description of the revision procedures, and an illustrative outline of the skills and concepts covered by CAP are included. Approximately 270 districts and counties participated in the test development process to…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, Grade 6
New Mexico State Dept. of Education, Santa Fe. – 1980
This handbook contains suggestions for the use of results from the New Mexico High School Proficiencies Examination (NMHSPE) and describes procedures for developing programs and planning intervention strategies. The information and guidelines will facilitate administrative action for program improvement through integration of the NMHSPE results…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Graduation Requirements, High Schools
