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Neill, Shirley Boes – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
This report on the First Annual National Conference on Student Competencies focues on the legal challenges to competency testing. (IRT)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing
Popham, W. James; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1985
Competency testing programs in Detroit, Illinois, and in the states of Maryland, Texas, and South Carolina have positively influenced student learning. In all four programs, measurement was perceived as a catalyst to improve instruction. (MLF)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Instructional Improvement, Minimum Competency Testing, Tests
Pipho, Chris – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
Offers a brief report on the National Assessment of Educational Progress conference on minimum competency testing. Among the reports was one asserting a logical relationship between student competency testing and teacher competency testing, and one noting that no research evidence shows that mandated student competency testing programs are…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing, Program Evaluation
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
Wise, Arthur E. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Reason and evidence provide little, if any, justification for the belief that minimum competency testing will help poor students to learn or poor teachers to teach. (Author)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Policy, Minimum Competency Testing, State Standards
Turlington, Ralph D. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
Compares the results of the first and second years of testing in the Florida minimum competency program to show that the program is working. (IRT)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing, Program Descriptions, State Programs
Turlington, Ralph D. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1981
Rebuts the article on minimum competency testing by Diana Pullin in the September 1981 "Kappan." Argues that the competency testing program in Florida is a powerful force for motivating improvement. (Author/WD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Court Litigation, Educational Improvement, Graduation Requirements
Riggs, Robert O.; Lewis, Willard L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
A survey of teacher education institutions indicates that only five of the 17 curriculum areas investigated are significantly affected by the implementation of state minimum competency testing programs. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Higher Education, Minimum Competency Testing, National Surveys
Chall, Jeanne S. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
The responses to an informal survey of the states indicate that most states are either giving competency tests, developing them, or making plans to do so. Many aspects of the current practices and trends need study and discussion. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing, National Surveys, Reading Achievement
Anderson, Barry D.; Lesser, Philip – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Discusses the costs of developing, administering, and regulating state competency tests as well as of the compensatory programs that the tests will make necessary, and then suggests five ways of reducing these costs. (IRT)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Costs, Elementary Secondary Education
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
Cawelti, Gordon – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
A national proficiency testing program would weaken local decision-making capacity, resegregate the schools, and further the negative effects of nonpromotion of students. Such a program would also have several negative effects on the curriculum. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing, National Competency Tests
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
Fremer, John – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Replies to the immediately preceding article. (IRT)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing
Henderson, Donald J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
All students except the mentally handicapped are required to show by examination that they are able to read, speak, and understand ordinary English; write a simple, correct, intelligible paragraph; and perform with reasonable mastery fundamental mathematical processes. (Author)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduation Requirements, High Schools
