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Moore, David; And Others – Reading World, 1979
Indicates that the movement toward minimal competency testing is widespread and growing but that its educational and social implications have yet to be evaluated. (TJ)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Trends, Minimum Competency Testing, Secondary Education
Fensham, Peter J. – Australian Journal of Reading, 1980
The problems inherent to standardized minimum competency testing are discussed. (HTH)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Minimum Competency Testing
Australian Journal of Reading, 1980
Written by the Australian Education Council, this article outlines the purpose and the procedures for the Australian Studies in Student Performance program, a project to gather information on achievement in literacy and numeracy of a sample of 10 and 14 year olds. (HTH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Donovan, William F. – Australian Journal of Reading, 1980
Development of survey test materials for the Australian national testing program in literacy and math skills is discussed. (HTH)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Material Development
Newkirk, Thomas – 1979
This criticism of writing competency tests questions both the efficacy of a test developed by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and the reliance of individual states on the products of private testmakers. The paper suggests that a hidden curriculum is being developed by independent and semi-independent organizations that…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Minimum Competency Testing, Student Evaluation, Test Validity
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Guthrie, John T. – Reading Teacher, 1981
Traces the history of minimum competency testing in the United States from 1890 to the present. (FL)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Trends
Nazzaro, Jean N. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1979
The text of a conversation with a Florida special education administrator explores such aspects as the skills that are being tested, how standards were derived, the effects of testing on curricula, special diplomas, and the improvement in scores noted in the second year of the testing. (DLS)
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Disabilities
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Layton, James R. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1981
There exists a controversy as to whether or not minimal competency testing in the area is a sound educational practice. A review of reading research in three areas, developmental reading, functional reading and recreational reading was conducted to provide data relevant to the controversy. (RD)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Functional Reading, Literature Reviews, Minimum Competency Testing
Girrbach, Charmaine J.; Claus, Richard N. – 1982
The Board of Education of the School District of the City of Saginaw requested the Department of Evaluation Services to review the literature relative to competency testing, especially for the elementary grades. This review on competency testing programs and competency based education (CBE) covers several areas. The emphasis on educational…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Kean, Michael H.; Mattleman, Marciene S. – Education and Urban Society, 1979
The controversy over minimum competency testing (MCT) is multi-faceted and it is the Local Education Agency (LEA) which will bear the burden of the MCT movement. Among the concerns of the LEAs are the means of assessment, the content of tests, and the curricular implications of MCT. (RLV)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Court Litigation, Literature Reviews
Page, Reba Neukom – 1983
The symbolic function of curricular debate, as it is manifested in the minimum competency testing movement (MCT), is investigated. Curricular debate necessarily reflects the demands of the society in which it arises. The topics that are addressed spring from this milieu and the language in which issues are couched must be appropriate to it.…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Basic Skills, Computer Literacy, Curriculum Development
Hathaway, Walter E. – 1981
More than thirty states, as well as numerous local school districts, have adopted some form of student minimum competency program. Such programs vary widely in their purposes which range all the way from instructional and curriculum planning to deciding whether students are promoted from grade to grade. Thus far, there has been little actual…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Educational Legislation
Klein, Karen – Phi Delta Kappan, 1984
This review of recent research on minimum competency testing requirements focuses on the impact of such requirements on school curricula and on the processes of selecting which competencies are to be tested, determining cutoff scores, and ensuring test validity and reliability. (JBM)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Criteria, Curriculum
Scheirer, Elinor A. – 1988
This paper explores how a set of curriculum reforms in the United States and England over the past 20 years may be interrelated, according to conclusions drawn from ethnographic investigation and informed by historical reflections. The discussion centers upon the case of informal, open, or progressive education, which has enjoyed a 40 plus--year…
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Cronnell, Bruce; And Others – 1982
The last of three volumes studying the relationship between writing research and instruction, this four-part report focuses on writing assessment. The first section details specifications for an instrument assessing student writing samples and the following composition skills: word processing, sentence processing, paragraph development,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Skills, Educational Assessment
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