Florida's Basic Skills Test, and Why Everybody Likes It.

Deane, Barbara; Walker, Jerry A.

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Florida's Basic Skills Test, and Why Everybody Likes It

Deane, Barbara; Walker, Jerry A.

American School Board Journal, 165, 5, 28-30, May 78

Most people seem to think the test will lead to improvement in education. Teachers, however, feel they are being made scapegoats and blacks feel that one crop of eleventh graders is being punished for not being able to make up in one year what they haven't learned in eleven. (Author/IRT)

Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Black Attitudes, Boards of Education, High School Students, High Schools, Minimum Competency Testing, State Programs, Teacher Attitudes, Testing Programs

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