Performance Gains in a Competency Test Program.

Serow, Robert C.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1982

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Performance Gains in a Competency Test Program.

Serow, Robert C.; And Others

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, v4 n4 p535-42 Win 1982

A sample of 1,731 North Carolina high school students who initially failed the state Competency Test registered improvements on subsequent reexaminations. The gains were apparently stable and related more to in-school factors than to individual background characteristics. (Author/PN)

Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Core Curriculum, High Schools, Minimum Competency Testing, Remedial Instruction, Review (Reexamination), State Programs, Testing Programs

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