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Taylor, Bob L. – North Central Association Quarterly, 1979
Summarizes and supports the position of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Project Committee, which favors a state-provided educational framework of goals, funding, and monitoring technical assistance, and the establishment by local school districts of their own instructional programs that meet individual needs rather than…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Basic Skills, Graduation Requirements
Peer reviewedGlass, Gene V. – Education and Urban Society, 1979
In this article, both the psychology behind minimum competency testing (MCT) and the statistics employed to determine the line between competence and incompetence are attacked. MCT is viewed as a crisis created to discredit teachers and schools and as a means of invasion of public education by state level bureaucrats and politicians. (RLV)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Centralization, Minimum Competency Testing
Madaus, George F. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1981
Argues against using results of minimum competency testing (MCT) as the sole determinant of student classification, promotion, or condition for graduation from high school. Favors accountability, but asserts that MCT is not the best alternative available. (WD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Educational Technology, Minimum Competency Testing
Herron, Marshall D. – 1978
The Oregon State Board of Education has rejected the use of cut-off scores on a proficiency test to establish minimum performance standards for high school graduation. Instead, each school district is required to specify--by local board adoption--minimum competencies in reading, writing, listening, speaking, analyzing, and computing. These…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Cutting Scores, Educational Objectives
Peer reviewedBaron, Joan Boykoff; Sergi, Theodore S. – Education and Urban Society, 1979
After reviewing some problems raised by Minimum Competency Testing (MCT), the authors present ideas on the role of the State Education Agencies in defining minimum competencies. Among the items discussed are the implementation time of MCT, curricular implications, the impact on children, the financing of remediation, and state versus local control…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation
National School Boards Association, Washington, DC. – 1978
This four-part report deals with minimal competency testing with a focus on test development and the federal role in competency testing. The first section presents highlights of a 1978 conference on "Achievement Testing and Basic Skills" chaired by Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Joseph Califano. The second section contains the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Board of Education Role, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textIsrael, William I., Ed. – 1978
Collected in this volume are the papers presented at the 1978 Chief State School Officers Summer Institute. The program was devoted to political issues in education and focused on a number of current educational problems. Political issues were discussed in relation to a number of areas, including federal education priorities, federal-state…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Basic Skills, Bilingual Education, Career Education
