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| English Education | 5 |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 3 |
| ERIC Publications | 1 |
| Guides - Classroom - Teacher | 1 |
| Opinion Papers | 1 |
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| Practitioners | 1 |
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Peer reviewedSmith, Vernon – English Education, 1978
Back to basics fundamentalism, the minimal competency movement, and competency testing are simplistic approaches to complex educational problems. (DD)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Educational Problems, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedFarrell, Edmund J. – English Education, 1978
Describes the tenets of the back to basics movement, especially as it applies to minimum competency testing, and points out that it creates an environment which impedes consequential learning. (DD)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Educational Problems, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedMackie, Jan – English Education, 1979
Suggests ways English teachers can prepare their students to take college entrance exams and state-mandated minimum competency tests. (DD)
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, College Entrance Examinations, English Instruction, Higher Education
Peer reviewedLehr, Fran – English Education, 1986
Presents information about the kind of competency testing being done, how educators view the testing movement, and how it is affecting teacher preparation programs. (SRT)
Descriptors: Accountability, Competency Based Teacher Education, Educational Change, Minimum Competency Testing
Peer reviewedFagan, Edward R. – English Education, 1985
Offers different perspectives of the conference topics that were discussed at the 1984 meeting of the International Federation for the Teaching of English (IFTE): language and English teacher education, language and competence, language and tests, language and schooling, language and technology, and language and technological overkill. (HOD)
Descriptors: Conferences, English Instruction, English Teacher Education, Global Approach
