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Mecklenburger, Jim – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
However feasible or easy it is to do minimum competency testing, the difficult task will be to defend doing it. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing
Beal, Barry B. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Since 1960 Denver has operated a testing program designed to assure that high school graduates possess minimum competence in four basic areas--arithmetic, spelling, grammar, and reading comprehension. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Graduation Requirements, High Schools
Ebel, Robert L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Minimum competency testing will help restore concern for cognitive development to the highest priority, and motivate teachers to teach more purposefully and students to work harder. A discussion of the kinds of tests to be used is included. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing
Bracey, Gerald W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Replies to the immediately preceding article. The author contends that the cause of incompetence resides more in the overall ambience of disaffection in the nation than in the schools. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education
Farr, Roger; Olshavsky, Jill Edwards – Phi Delta Kappan, 1980
Because the skills tested on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) are higher order skills than those of basic literacy, teaching basic literacy will not necessarily improve SAT scores. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, which does test literacy, indicates that students do possess basic literacy skills. (IRT) Aspect of National…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Literacy
Findley, Jim – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Students graduating from Westside High must meet hour and competency test requirements. The seven competency tests are in reading, writing, mathematics, democratic process, problem-solving, oral communication, and consumerism. (IRT)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Graduation Requirements, High School Students
Pipho, Chris – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Discusses and presents a summary outline of state activity in minimum competency testing as of March 15, 1978. (IRT)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Competency Based Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing
Candor-Chandler, Catherine – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
The key elements to this plan for special education students are keeping a check on student achievement throughout all the grades, communicating with parents about student deficiencies, and requiring competency tests of all high school students. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Persons
Brickell, Henry M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
There is a great deal to think about in a minimum competency program: What competencies? How to measure? When to measure? One minimum or many? How high the minimum? Minimums for students or for schools? What to do with the incompetent? (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests
Hart, Gary K. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
The purpose of this proficiency legislation is to create a public dialogue regarding high school graduation standards, restore meaning to the high school diploma, and ensure that students who have difficulty with basic skills receive appropriate instruction. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
Nathan, Joe; Jennings, Wayne – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Explores such myths as competency-based graduation requirements are a repudiation of humanistic concerns, the public won't accept subjective measures of competence, and requiring students to pass proficiency tests before graduation will increase public support for education. Offers suggestions for developing new kinds of graduation requirements.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Fisher, Thomas H. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Graduation Requirements
