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Is Competency Testing the Answer?

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Watts, Doyle – Clearing House, 1979

Competency testing is only one component of competency-based education (CBE); the others are: educational objectives, instructional process, remedial instruction, and program evaluation/reconceptualization. To implement only competency testing may result in disillusionment with the entire concept of CBE, which seeks to improve programs, not fail…

Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Formative Evaluation

A New Alternative School: CEEC.

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Yates, Janie B. – Clearing House, 1979

The Community Experimental Education Center (CEEC) serves 50 disadvantaged students, ages 16 to 20, unable to function well in traditional schools. Each student must complete 33 competencies in career, consumer, and life skills. This report discusses the program design, funding, and staffing and lists the 33 competencies. (SJL)

Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Competency Based Education, Continuation Students, Daily Living Skills