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Download full textThurlow, Martha L.; Albus, Debra A.; Lazarus, Sheryl S. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2015
Graduation requirements and diploma options for students with disabilities who participate in the general assessment has been a topic of interest for many years. The recent push for all students, including those with disabilities, to leave school ready for college and career has heightened the importance of understanding what states are requiring…
Descriptors: Synthesis, Disabilities, Educational Policy, Graduation Requirements
Baldwin, Janet, Ed. – 1996
This annual statistical report profiles General Educational Development (GED) Test takers in 1995. At the beginning of the report are the following: an introduction to the GED testing service, the Center for Adult Learning and Educational Credentials, and the American Council on Education; a description of how the data were gathered; suggestions…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Educational Certificates, Educational Research, High School Equivalency Programs
Katz, Cynthia L.; Padia, William L. – 1982
In 1975 California became the first state to offer an "early exit" proficiency test from high school to persons 16 years of age or older (California law normally requires young persons to attend school until they reach 18 or graduate regularly from high school). More than 87,000 persons have passed the early exit examination; a pass rate…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Educational Attainment, Equivalency Tests
Duckworth, Derek – 1975
In an effort to meet the needs of a wider range of abilities in sixth-form students in England, their major and minor studies were combined with a program of general studies in curriculum working toward a Certificate of Extended Education (CEE). In summer 1974, the CEE experimental testing program was offered to students in the sixth form,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Preparation, Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum Design
Peer reviewedShepard, Lorrie – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1979
Assessment generally refers to large-scale, system-wide measurement programs for pupil diagnosis; pupil certification; program evaluation; research; accountability; resource allocations; or teacher evaluation. The purpose of assessment should determine the test content, construction, administration, and examinees sampled. Assessment methods for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Assessment, Educational Research
Lockwood, Robert E. – 1985
A technical advisory committee assisted the Alabama State Department of Education in establishing passing scores and equating test forms of the Alabama High School Graduation Examination (AHSGE). The committee examined four methods of setting cutting scores: (1) Jensen's theoretical method--probability theory is used to set standards that are…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Cutting Scores, Elementary Secondary Education, Equated Scores
