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Ishler, Richard E. – Action in Teacher Education, 1985
This article describes the teacher testing requirements that have been mandated by the Texas legislature. Teacher tests which are already in effect or will be required are: a basic skills tests; an initial certification test; an incumbent educators test; a master teacher test; and an alternative certification test. (MT)
Descriptors: Master Teachers, Minimum Competency Testing, Selective Admission, State Legislation
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Pruitt, K. Wayne – Clearing House, 1980
The state laws currently being passed to promote competency-based education and testing are so lacking in detail and so unrealistic in their expectations that they will do little to restore public confidence in education and may even have a disruptive influence. (SJL)
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Editorials, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing
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Stanard, Marilynn – Action in Teacher Education, 1985
West Virginia's "Master Plan for Public Education" calls for a Professional Performance Assessment of student teachers in field-based programs. The challenge is to incorporate the assessments in the least intrusive manner. While there is skepticism, some cooperating teachers hope the screening will result in better-prepared student…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Field Experience Programs, Minimum Competency Testing, State Legislation
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Baughman, Susan; Chase, Paul – Education Libraries, 1979
Tabulates each state's minimum competency activities, indicating who mandated the action (state legislature/state board of education), who set the standards (local/state), which areas are tested (math/language arts/other), which tests are used (local/state/commercial), and use of the data (high school graduation/grade promotion/remedial…
Descriptors: Activities, Information Utilization, Minimum Competency Testing, Secondary Education
McMillan, William J. – Headmaster U.S.A., 1979
Issues of state control over private schools are expected to center primarily over the questions of literacy testing of students and minimum competency testing of teachers. Available from Headmaster U.S.A., Post Office Box 21587, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33335; sc $4.00. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing, Private Schools
Watchke, Gary A. – 1977
After a brief discussion of the issues prompting concern with competency-based education (CBE) and an explanation of what it is and why it is so popular, this document goes on to discuss action Wisconsin and other states have taken to implement CBE. Very brief accounts are given of the minimal competency-type programs implemented in Sparta,…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing, State Legislation
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Anderson, Betty; And Others – Action in Teacher Education, 1986
The Florida legislature recently mandated several testing programs to improve the quality of teacher education entrants, students, and graduates. These requirements and their impact on teacher education in Florida are discussed. (MT)
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Higher Education, Minimum Competency Testing, Preservice Teacher Education
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Lott, Winsor – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1983
The Florida Court decision reaffirms a state's right to impose a diploma sanction when competency tests are valid. Testing specialists now have a precedent for demonstrating curricular and instructional validity. Competency testing programs are a useful method for implementing instructional improvements. (DWH)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Change, Equal Education, Graduation Requirements
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Baughman, Susan – Education Libraries, 1979
Reports on the national demand for higher educational standards evident in the state legislation of the past three or four years that has mandated minimum competency testing programs. States that have adopted various kinds of such legislation are listed. (JD)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Legislation, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Fisk, Edward B. – Teacher, 1979
Minimum competencies are being imposed on the schools by state legislators frustrated by declining academic achievement. Teachers must not allow this movement to engender a "teaching for the test" mentality. They must work for a balanced curriculum, good remedial programs, and competency tests which provide real feedback for teaching. (SJL)
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Educational Trends, Elementary Education, Minimum Competencies
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Ewing, Norma J. – High School Journal, 1979
The author examines concerns about whether or not, and by what criteria, handicapped students should be included in or excluded from comprehensive competency testing programs, as well as the implications of minimum competency testing for the handicapped. Pertinent legislation from several states is discussed. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Educational Discrimination
Lively, Kit – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1995
A test that for a decade has been required of Florida college students before they can become juniors will, in 1996, become only one of four ways for students to demonstrate academic readiness. While some expect the change to reduce remedial enrollments, move students through college faster, and improve collaboration between public schools and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation
Evans, Martha Coffin – Phi Delta Kappan, 1985
Analysis of changes in the graduation requirements, credit requirements, and curriculum in high school English in California since the adoption of minimum competency testing by state law during the 1976-77 legislative session suggests that statewide legislative mandates can have significant impact on school district programs and priorities. (PGD)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Change Agents, Educational Change, English Curriculum
Baratz, Joan C. – New York University Education Quarterly, 1979
In setting performance standards for schoolchildren, the school system not only announces what students must know; it specifies what it presumes it can teach. Tests of competency should be merely a monitoring device to indicate whether the system is meeting its obligation to students. (Author)
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Government Role, Graduation Requirements
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Lynch, Patrick – Education and Urban Society, 1979
The growth in the minimum competency testing movement stems not only from a concern with what students are getting from their schooling, but also from a desire to make sure that the public gets a return on its investment in education. (Author/RLV)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Legislation, Minimum Competency Testing, Secondary Education
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