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Peer reviewedWeller, L. David – Clearing House, 1980
Suggests that behavioral objectives and minimum competency testing can be effective for monitoring elementary students' mastery of basic skills, but to carry this system into the upper grades and other subject areas risks stultifying learning and inhibiting the free atmosphere that complex thinking and social education require. (SJL)
Descriptors: Accountability, Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Problems, Educational Environment
