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Peer reviewedShine, William A.; Goldman, Norman – Educational Leadership, 1980
Contends that New Jersey's Minimum Basic Skills (MBS) tests in reading and mathematics waste time and money and should not be used by the state as the criteria to measure school and district performance. Low scores are the result of social conditions schools cannot correct by themselves. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics
Peer reviewedBurke, Fred G. – Educational Leadership, 1980
The New Jersey Commissioner of Education replies that the Minimum Basic Skills (MBS) tests are not the sole criterion used to measure school and district performance and that some schools manage to teach well despite their students' low socioeconomic level. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics
Peer reviewedPopham, W. James; Rankin, Stuart C. – Educational Leadership, 1980
The Detroit (Michigan) High School Proficiency Program emphasizes instruction as well as testing. (Author)
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Mathematics, Minimum Competency Testing, Reading
Peer reviewedAlgozzine, Bob; And Others – Journal of Special Education, 1987
The mathematics performance of 1,098 learning disabled (LD) Florida tenth graders on the Florida State Assessment Test-II was evaluated. LD students tended to perform better on skills requiring literal use of numbers and worse on skills requiring application of mathematical knowledge. Employers' ratings supported the importance of skills tested.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Employer Attitudes, Grade 10, High Schools
Peer reviewedBrickell, Henry M. – Educational Leadership, 1980
Radical, but nevertheless serious, suggestions are made to change ineffective schools. (MLF)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Change Strategies, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedAnderson, Lorin W.; Anderson, Jo Craig – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1981
Development of the mathematics functional literacy test (MFLT) is described, issues of predictive and content validity are discussed, and implications for educational policy are presented. Ten basic skill areas identified by the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics were used as the basis for the development of the MFLT. (RL)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Educational Policy, Functional Literacy, High Schools
Peer reviewedGiesbrecht, Edwin – School Science and Mathematics, 1980
The study examines Saskatchewan high school students' achievement of selected mathematical competencies. Results indicate statistically significant differences in achievement among some grades, mathematics programs, school enrollment sizes, and between the sexes. Educational implications are outlined. (MK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Competence, Educational Research, Mathematics
Peer reviewedNiedermeyer, Fred; Yelon, Stephen – Educational Leadership, 1981
Classroom instruction is aligned with grade level basic objectives and a yearly survey of these skills. Methods and resources that elementary school principals and teachers can use to teach essential skills are being developed. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
del Refugio Robledo, Maria; Cortez, Albert – Intercultural Development Research Association Newsletter, 1983
Although the results of minimum competency tests need to be interpreted with caution, data on the Texas Assessment of Basic Skills (TABS) for 1980-82 clearly indicate the inadequate results of remedial programs for minority students in Texas. Secondary analysis of the data shows that overall performance on exit level math and reading tests…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Blacks, Compensatory Education, Grade 9
