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Review of "The Effects of Test-Based Retention on Student Outcomes over Time: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Florida"
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Robinson-Cimpian, Joseph P. – National Education Policy Center, 2015
A recent NBER [National Bureau of Economic Research] working paper examines Florida's policy to retain many low-scoring third graders. The report concludes that third-grade retention has immediate positive effects on the following year's test results, but these effects fade over the next six years, with no effect on graduation. The regression…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Standardized Tests, State Standards, Regression (Statistics)
Easy Approaches to Establishing Validity in a Task-Based Teacher Performance Assessment System
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Lang, William Steve; Wilkerson, Judy R. – Online Submission, 2005
NCATE (2002) requires the measurement of knowledge, skills, and dispositions as part of its accreditation requirements for teacher education programs (Standard 1) and the use of unit assessment systems to aggregate and analyse data with a view toward program improvement (Standard 2). Data must indicate that candidates meet professional, state, and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Teacher Education Programs, Performance Based Assessment, Program Improvement
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
The Law and Competency Evaluation.
Clement, Annie – 1984
Competency testing often refers to a system devised to assure successful performance on a specific test, in addition to other mandated criteria as a requisite to obtaining a high school diploma. Minimum competency testing is usually defined in one of two ways: as the acquisition of basic skills or as the demonstrated ability to apply basic skills…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Court Litigation, Graduation Requirements, High Schools
Teacher Competency Tests as Educational Genocide for Blacks: The Florida Teacher Certification Examination.
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Hoover, Mary E. Rhodes – Negro Educational Review, 1984
Argues that the Florida Teacher Certification Examination is culturally, linguistically, and philosophically biased against minorities. Suggested alternatives to testing are implementation of knowledge about effective schools, teacher workshops on effective techniques and attitudes for teaching nonachievers, and improved early education. (CMG)
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Teachers, Culture Fair Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
Expectations for Quality: Should They Be Satisfied or Questioned? Proceedings of the Annual Florida Statewide Conference on Institutional Research (13th, Tallahassee, Florida, June 11-13, 1980).
Montgomery, David C., Ed.; Duckwall, Julia, Ed. – 1980
Proceedings of a Florida statewide conference on quality in higher education are presented. Topics include the following: databases, the community colleges' accounting for quality, program budgeting, and trends in truth in testing. Transcripts of a panel discussion on databases and the following papers and reports are included: "Quality and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Advisory Committees, Basic Skills, Community Colleges