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Download full textCenter on Education Policy, 2010
This paper provides information about New Mexico High School Competency Examination (NMHSCE), a minimum competency test. Its purpose is to meet a state mandate. It will be replaced by the Grade 11 Standards Based Assessment/High School Graduation Assessment (SBA/HSGA) in spring 2011 as the state's high school exit exam. The NMHSCE was administered…
Descriptors: High Schools, Minimum Competency Testing, Exit Examinations, Minimum Competencies
Peer reviewedThurlow, Martha L.; Ysseldyke, James E.; Reid, Cheryl L. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1997
Comparison of state graduation requirements found significant differences in the exit documents awarded to students with disabilities, with similar requirements sometimes earning different types of exit documents in different states. It was also found that 44 states use Carnegie course unit requirements and 17 states have minimum competency…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Credits, Disabilities, Graduation Requirements
ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children, Reston, VA. – 1988
Two national surveys on graduation requirements and transition services for students with handicaps are briefly described. The first study, "State Graduation Policies and Program Practices Related to High School Special Education Programs" by Joanne Records Bodner et al., surveyed state special education directors or their designees in 50 states…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Educational Policy, Graduation Requirements
Furr, Jane D. – 1980
Employment characteristics reported 30 months after graduation by over 1,000 respondents to the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS) were related to high school achievement on the Student Test Book of the NLS. Although respondents did not take a minimum competency test, experts agreed that the Student Test Book would…
Descriptors: Employment, Employment Level, High School Graduates, High Schools
Falbo, Toni – 1996
A study begun in a Texas school district in 1988 focused on families of Mexican origin, studying characteristics of their schools and studying what the families and schools did or did not do to promote graduation from high school. The sample of 100 15-year-olds labeled as "at risk" was fairly typical of Latino students in the school…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Educational Practices, Grade Repetition, Graduation Requirements
Iowa State Dept. of Education, Des Moines. – 1989
The Iowa Norming Study determined how well graduating high school seniors (N=722) performed on the revised 1988 Tests of General Educational Development (GED), providing the data to describe and evaluate the score requirements for GED Test candidates in terms of the percentage of Iowa high school graduates a GED Test candidate must exceed to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cutting Scores, Equivalency Tests, High School Equivalency Programs
Cohen, Paul – 1987
The 1986-87 graduating classes of public high schools in New Jersey were the third set of classes that had to satisfy the state's High School Graduation Requirements Law (Chapter 241). Data reported by the districts are summarized, although no individual district data are presented. The statewide graduation requirements include: (1) passing a…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Legislation, Graduation Requirements, High School Graduates
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1985
This booklet describes a number of activities initiated in the State of New Jersey to improve academic standards and to help teachers prepare their students for taking New Jersey's High School Proficiency Test (HSPT). The HSPT, administered to all public school ninth graders, is more demanding than the previously used Minimum Basic Skills Test.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Grade 9, Graduation Requirements, High School Graduates
Belcher, Marcia J.; Downing, Sherry – 1990
A recent study of Dade County Public School (DCPS) graduates attending Miami-Dade Community College (M-DCC) revealed that 64% of those who graduated high school in 1989 had failed one or more of the basic skills sub-tests of the Florida Multiple Assessment Programs and Services test (FL-MAPS). Another study was conducted in 1989 to determine the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Bound Students, College Freshmen, College Preparation
