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Baratz, Joan C. – New York University Education Quarterly, 1979
In setting performance standards for schoolchildren, the school system not only announces what students must know; it specifies what it presumes it can teach. Tests of competency should be merely a monitoring device to indicate whether the system is meeting its obligation to students. (Author)
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Government Role, Graduation Requirements
Download full textJaeger, Richard M., Ed.; Tittle, Carol Kehr, Ed.
Addressing often neglected broad issues, rather than the pragmatics of test development and administration, this Conference on Minimum Competency Achievement Testing was organized around six topics: (1) social and philosophical roots, uniqueness among testing movements, and policy issues; (2) legal, curricular, and social-demographic consequences;…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Competency Based Education, Curriculum
