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Bratton, Samuel E., Jr. – Tennessee Education, 1981
Raises philosophical and technical questions about the Tennessee minimum competency testing program, including: what subject and skills are basic; who determines what competencies are minimal; what should be the consequences of failure; who is responsible for remediation of failing students; do or should skills being taught match skills being…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Minimum Competencies, Minimum Competency Testing, Secondary Education
Nations, Alfred – Tennessee Education, 1981
Discusses two reasons why the state of writing performance may worsen when, beginning in 1983, Tennessee high school students must pass a proficiency test as a condition for graduation; reasons are the objective nature of the test and the language performance objectives which the test proposes to measure. (NEC)
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Functional Literacy, Grammar, Minimum Competency Testing
