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Download full textCervero, Ronald M. – 1983
Nearly 15 percent of the high school diplomas issued in the United States in 1981 were based upon performance on the Tests of General Educational Development (GED). The purpose of this study is to describe: (1) the ways that adults prepare for the test; (2) the test performance of population sub-groups, and (3) the test candidates employment and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Employment Patterns, Followup Studies
Khullar, Gurdeep S.; Antonelli, George A. – 1983
A study compared and contrasted the attitudes and opinions of a diversified and randomly selected sample of educators and administrators in the field of teacher education. Study questionnaires sought opinions on six major factors of the basics of teacher training: (1) governance and organization; (2) program content; (3) pre-student teaching…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Comparative Analysis, Governance, Graduation Requirements
Chicago Board of Education, IL. Dept. of Curriculum. – 1981
The student promotion policy for Chicago public schools is delineated in this guide. The promotion policy in both elementary and secondary schools is described as consisting of three dimensions: (1) instructional program; (2) intervention and monitoring activities; and (3) assessment, testing, and program evaluation. Components of each of these…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Board of Education Policy, Criterion Referenced Tests
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1989
The New Jersey High School Proficiency Test (HSPT) consists of reading, writing, and mathematics sections and must be passed as one of the requirements for a high school diploma. This report includes a series of tables summarizing grade 10 test results statewide for April 11-13, 1989. The results for 6,352 10th graders are given separately for…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Graduation Requirements, High School Students, High Schools
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1989
Results for grade 11 are presented for the New Jersey High School Proficiency Test (HSPT) administered on April 11-13, 1989. The HSPT is a requirement for a New Jersey high school diploma. Data are provided for 3,018 11th graders who took the HSPT for the first time or who did not pass one or more parts when they first took the test in grade 9.…
Descriptors: Grade 11, Graduation Requirements, High School Students, High Schools
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1989
Results for grade 12 are represented for the April 11-13, 1989 administration of the New Jersey High School Proficiency Test (HSPT), a requirement for high school graduation for New Jersey students. The test is initially given in grade 9. Data are provided for 762 12th-grade students who were taking the test for the first time or were repeating…
Descriptors: Grade 12, Graduation Requirements, High School Seniors, High Schools
Dale, Donald; McKinley, Kenneth H. – 1986
There are many advantages of small schools: community acceptance, innovative teachers, faculty input in school administration, and a family atmosphere; however, smaller schools also have problems such as fewer staff members, little choice of teachers by students, fewer approaches to teaching, little use of specialists, and fewer books and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems, Distance Education, Educational Technology
Berney, Tomi D.; Simon, Monique S. – 1990
The 1989 Summer Bilingual Program, funded for its third year by tax levy, served 2,365 limited-English-proficient high school students at 14 sites in Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens. Designed for the substantial number of students who are over-age for their grade, the program offered the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) and bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), Graduation Requirements, High School Students
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Office of General and Occupational Education. – 1989
This five-section handbook contains provisions of the education law, commissioner's regulations, and related state education department policies and guidelines that form the legal basis of occupational education programs in New York. Section 1 of the handbook provides a brief description of why a restructuring of the occupational education program…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduation Requirements
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1987
As part of an examination required by the Alberta (Canada) Department of Education in order for 12th grade students to receive a diploma in French, this booklet contains the composition component of the January 1987 tests. Divided into three essay questions for a total writing time of two and one-half hours duration, parts one and two of the test…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Canadian Literature, Foreign Countries
General Information: Grade 12 Diploma Examinations Program, 1986-87 School Year. Student Evaluation.
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1986
This bulletin contains general information about the Grade 12 Diploma Examinations Program in Alberta, Canada. All twelfth graders must write at least one diploma examination to receive a high school diploma. The examination certifies academic achievement in English 30 and 33, Social Studies 30, Mathematics 30, Biology 30, Chemistry 30, Physics…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Credit Courses, Equivalency Tests, Foreign Countries
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1986
The Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills (TEAMS) exit level test was first administered to all eleventh grade students in October 1985. A make-up testing was conducted in January 1986. This report contains the results of the May 1986 retesting of approximately 3,200 11th-grade students who had previously failed to master either the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Grade 11, Graduation Requirements, High Schools
Cape May County Vocational Schools, NJ. – 1986
The New Jersey Vocational Education Basic Skills Commission was formed to examine issues related to preparing students to pass the state's High School Proficiency Test (HSPT), which must be passed by both academic and vocational students before they can graduate from high school. The commission decided that vocational teachers should have no…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Credits, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs
Earle, Janice – 1986
Maryland is one of the states which recently developed new requirements for high school graduation. A preliminary evaluation of these new state standards has raised a number of issues about graduation standards and their assessment. The Maryland State Department of Education examined statewide policies and guidelines for high schools between 1982…
Descriptors: Credits, Educational Change, Evaluation Methods, Grade 9
Jonas, Edward D., Jr.; Hayes-Wallace, Lamarian – 1986
The effects of failing to pass a high school exit exam were examined for the Georgia Basic Skills Test (GBST). Data were collected on a random sample of students who were tenth graders in 1983 and in 1984. The following issues were studied: (1) impact of failure on self esteem, as measured by the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale (P-H);…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Cutting Scores, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 10
