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Challenges in Implementing a Statewide Testing Program.

Brown, William J., Jr. – 1985

Several of the major considerations involved in implementing a statewide testing program are discussed. The test results provide information which influences the educational enterprise in matters of curriculum, instruction, guidance, and accountability. Tests to be used in an assessment program must be developed by the administering agency when…

Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing

Teacher Certification Testing Across the United States and a Consideration of Some of the Issues.

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Flippo, Rona F. – 1985

The pattern toward an increase in the number of states using some form of competency testing prior to the certification of educators is substantiated in this paper. Competency testing programs are implemented at three distinct levels: (1) before entrance into a teacher education program near the end of the sophomore year in college; (2) at the end…

Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Ladders, Higher Education, Minimum Competency Testing