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Minimum Competency Testing: Guidelines for Policymakers and Citizens.
Gray, Dennis – 1980
Intended to help the laity find their way through the confusion and controversy surrounding minimum competency testing (MCT), this paper explains what MCT is, acknowledges its limitations, weighs the criticisms, and shows how MCT may be used constructively for the benefit of students and for the improvement of schools. Highlights from the paper…
Descriptors: Definitions, Minimum Competency Testing, Policy Formation, Test Use
The High School: Prospects for Change.
Gray, Dennis – 1980
Productive changes in schooling throughout the 1980s are contingent on emphasis being placed on school effectiveness rather than on curriculum adjustments. Today's curriculum sprawl, caused by the state and federal legislatures' penchant for creating courses to cure newly-emerging social ills, must not deplete resources that should be directed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Educational Change