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Strozeski, Michael W. – 1982
Virtually every school system is concerned with two educational considerations: (1) where the students are academically, and (2) how to get the students to a particular set of points. Minimum competency testing has been proposed as one way to handle these concerns. Competency testing has, however, been criticized for encouraging "teaching to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Enrichment, Educational Improvement, Elementary Education
Kansas State Dept. of Education, Topeka. – 1979
The activities and results of the first year of a two-year student assessment pilot program are described, based on a 1978 mandate by the Kansas Legislature requiring the development of minimum competency objectives in the areas of reading and mathematics for students in grades 2, 4, 6, 8, and 11 and instruments for assessing those competencies.…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Objectives, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary Secondary Education
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. Div. of Operations, Research, and Evaluation. – 1980
An overview is presented of the New Jersey Department of Education's activities in response to the following mandates: (1) statewide minimum standards be established for communication/computation skills; (2) students be tested annually in these areas to determine progress; and (3) remediation be provided to all students whose performance is below…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Educational Assessment
Jones, Preston K. – Technological Horizons in Education, 1987
Discusses Florida's remediation program that was mandated by the Educational Accountability Act in light of the use of computer-assisted instruction. Cites several studies which question the relative effectiveness of such instruction on boys and girls. Argues that mathematics remediation programs could be enhanced through the use of computers. (TW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary School Mathematics
