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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
