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Peer reviewedSavage, David G. – Educational Leadership, 1978
Examines the Oregon program in which each school district establishes and measures its own set of competency standards. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competencies
Puerto Rico State Dept. of Education, Hato Rey. – 1978
This final report describes a coordinated dissemination program that was developed to help provide educational information to the teaching personnel of the Puerto Rico Department of Education. Objectives, problems, accomplishments, and recommendations are included; appendices provide the program's budget, the questionnaire used to assess the needs…
Descriptors: Budgets, Educational Administration, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
Download full textGreater Newark Urban Coalition, NJ. – 1976
One purpose of this paper is to describe how the concept of statewide minimum standards has been used in other states and to suggest precisely how it should be used in New Jersey. Current New Jersey law requires districts to establish pupil proficiency levels in basic skills, to identify children who fall below them, and to provide those children…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Mastery Learning
Vermont State Dept. of Education, Montpelier. – 1979
The Vermont Basic Competency Program is described, and its assessment results are reported for its second year of implementation. Data were collected on students in Vermont who were born in 1963, who are in the high school class of 1981 (which will be the first class to require mastery of 51 basic competencies for graduation), and who have already…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Mid-Atlantic Teacher Corps Network, Philadelphia, PA. – 1979
The conference's keynote address is presented by Bernard C. Watson. Papers include: Vantage from the State Department of Education, by Robert G. Scanlon (Pennsylvania); Minimum Competency: As the Public Sees the Question, by Jacqueline Grennan Wexler; Minimum Competency Testing (MCT): A Tripartite Response from the Profession, by W. James Popham;…
Descriptors: Accountability, Bureaucracy, Community Attitudes, Educational Policy
Gorth, William Phillip; Perkins, Marcy R. – 1979
The status of minimum competency testing programs, as of June 30, 1979, is given through descriptions of 31 state programs and 20 local district programs. For each program, the following information is provided: legislative and policy history; implementation phase; goals; competencies to be tested; standards and standard setting; target groups and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Court Litigation, Disadvantaged, Educational Objectives
