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Minimum Competency Testing Clarification Hearing (July 9th, 1981).

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National Inst. of Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1981

Barbara Jordan served as the hearing officer for three-day adversary evaluation hearings about the pros and cons of minimum competency testing (MCT). This report is the complete transcript of the second day of proceedings. The pro team, lead by James Popham, began by presenting representatives of four states (Florida, California, Texas, and…

Descriptors: Cutting Scores, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearings, Minimum Competency Testing

Proceedings of the National Conference on Minimum Competency Testing.

Northwest Regional Education Lab., Portland, OR. Clearinghouse for Applied Performance Testing. – 1978

Seven prepared papers, with questions from the audience and answers by participants make up the proceedings of this conference on minimum competency testing. A number of conceptual and technical problems were raised, as well as questions about the effects of minimum competency testing on the curriculum and the psychological effects of the program…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Conference Reports