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Peer reviewedGreer, Rachel D. – Action in Teacher Education, 1986
As the use of competency testing of teachers has increased, the issue of the effect of standardized testing on minority groups at all educational levels has resurfaced. Several programs designed to raise standards and increase test scores are described. (MT)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Minimum Competency Testing
PDF pending restorationWood, Eric F. – 1986
This paper examines some of the implications of present testing programs for minority groups. The effects on prospective teachers and the institutions that prepare them are discussed. The role of the testing movement in molding the curriculum that is taught in colleges of education is described with particular consideration of state-mandated…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Black Colleges, Certification, Higher Education
Atkinson, Anna Pearl – 1980
Equal educational opportunity is the springboard for equal opportunity and is the hope of blacks, other minorities, and whites for fair participation in the economic marketplace. Standardized tests frequently contain a cultural bias that mitigates against black students, thus presenting a barrier to higher education. In many places, competency…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Education, Black Teachers, Culture Fair Tests
