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Direct linkCooper, Mary Ann – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
The Department of Education has been under attack by people motivated by the perceived failure of the system to improve educational achievement on the elementary and high school levels or the desire to dramatically reduce spending and waste during troubled economic times. A new program introduced in four states seems to address competency and…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Practices, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Administration
Download full textBaker, Eva; Herman, Joan – 1984
This report summarizes the results of two educational policy studies: (1) an analysis of current problems in teacher competency testing; and (2) an exploration of educational testing and evaluation research and development needs. In the first study, information on teacher competency testing was gathered from a literature review and meetings with…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Educational Testing
Peer reviewedGoldberg, Milton; Traiman, Susan L. – Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2001
Business cares about education standards because the well-being of their companies and every American is at stake. In the international marketplace, says former Lockheed-Martin chief executive officer (CEO) Norman Augustine, the United States is involved in a "battle of the classrooms." As a result, business leaders believe that…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Academic Standards, Educational Change, School Business Relationship
American Coll. Testing Program, Iowa City, IA. – 1978
The College Outcome Measures Project (COMP) was organized to design, develop, validate, and disseminate assessment instruments and procedures to measure and evaluate the knowledge and skills that undergraduate students are expected to acquire as a result of general or liberal education programs, as well as those important to effective functioning…
Descriptors: Adults, Annual Reports, Basic Skills, College Students
