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Peer reviewedGray, Kenneth C.; Wang, Dan-Shang – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 1989
A pilot test of 29 (78 percent) first-year trade and industrial (T&I) teachers who took the Connecticut Competency Examination for Prospective Teachers compared their scores with those of general education majors. Only 21 percent of the T&I teachers passed, suggesting the need for better basic skills preparation in T&I teacher…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Beginning Teachers, Minimum Competency Testing, Postsecondary Education
Walter, Richard A. – 1984
The Pennsylvania State University served as the Pennsylvania Coordinator of Occupational Competency Assessment (OCA). It managed the Pennsylvania OCA Program, which provides the secondary public schools of the state with competent vocational instructors as a component of teacher preparation at Temple University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania,…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Minimum Competency Testing
Download full textBlock, Arthur R.; Rebell, Michael A. – 1980
One of seven sections of a report that examines the assessment of occupational competence, this chapter provides a review of how the courts have responded to assessment practices. The difference in the perspectives held by the users and originators of assessment procedures and those held by the courts is developed by examining key court cases…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adults, Certification, Competence
