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Competency-Based Diploma Pilot Program. Provider Performance Report: Fiscal Years 2024 and 2025
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Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, 2025
In response to the educational and workforce challenges facing young adults without high school diplomas, Ohio House Bill 33 authorized the creation of the 18+ Pilot Adult High School Diploma Program. Backed by a $2.5 million appropriation, HB33 established this initiative to operate during Fiscal Years 2024 and 2025, offering a flexible,…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, High School Equivalency Programs, Adult Education, Educational Attainment
Competency-Based Testing and Credentialing: Addressing Inequity in Adult Education via State Policy Reform
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Austin S. Jennings – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2025
Competency-based testing and credentialing (CBTC) initiatives aim to address inequity in adult education by fundamentally changing how states use GED®, HiSET®, and TASC™ test scores to award and withhold high school equivalency credentials. However, CBTC is inconsistent with how developers intend states to use those scores. Accordingly, it falls…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Minimum Competency Testing, Credentials, Equal Education
The External Diploma Program (EDP) and the SCANS Report. The External Diploma Program (EDP) and CASAS.
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Harvey, Florence – 1992
These two presentations discuss the National External Diploma Program (EDP) sponsored by the American Council on Education and its relationship to the Department of Labor's Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) report and to the Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System (CASAS). The first presentation focuses on the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Certification, Comparative Analysis, Competency Based Education
Results from the First National EDP Survey. Report from the Other High School Diploma Program.
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Harvey, Florence – 1992
The National External Degree Program (EDP) of the American Council on Education is an alternative way for adults to earn a high school diploma. EDP is a competency-based, high school level assessment system that credentials mature adults who have acquired their high school level skills through their life experience. It uses materials adults have…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Certification, Comparative Analysis, Competency Based Education
Adult Basic and Literacy Education Program: Revised Indicators of Program Quality, Fiscal Year 2004.
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Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Div. of Career-Technical and Adult Education. – 2003
This document lists the Ohio Department of Education's Adult Basic and Literacy Education revised indicators of program quality. A chart details the measures and performance standards for the following quality indicators: (1) students demonstrate progress toward attainment of literacy skills at levels of proficiency necessary to function on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
Analysis of the Competency-Based High School Diploma Program for CETA Clients. Report III: Student/Client Completion Results.
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McMillan, Samuel H., Jr. – 1980
A study examined the student/client completion of a competency-based high school diploma for CETA clients. Using follow-up forms, attendance records, correspondence, telephone calls, and client information sheets, researchers collected data from clients and staff pertaining to 102 of the 238 program clients from five sites in Texas (Abilene,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Competency Based Education, Counselor Attitudes, Dropout Rate