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McCarthy, Martha M. – Educational Horizons, 1983
Discusses the minimum competency testing movement and the unresolved issues concerning it. Indicates that until the issues are settled, there will continue to be controversy and legal activity. (JOW)
Descriptors: Accountability, Court Litigation, Educational Principles, Legal Problems
Nafziger, Dean H. – 1980
This conference paper examines issues regarding minimum competency testing, including: (1) the history and current status of minimum competency testing programs, in the U.S. and especially in the Midwest; (2) technical characteristics of minimum competency tests; (3) the relationship of minimum competency tests to the regular curriculum and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Competency Based Education, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
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Dittmer, Allan E. – English Journal, 1980
Expresses the serious problems inherent in minimum competency testing, particularly as it is used in assessing student writing ability. (RL)
Descriptors: Accountability, Minimum Competencies, Minimum Competency Testing, Negative Attitudes
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Baron, Joan Boykoff; Baron, Reuben M. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1980
Both the Evaluation Research Society and minimum competency testing proponents have searched for evaluation standards. A need exists for ethical standards which are universal and absolute, as well as methodolgical guidelines which are particular and relative. (CP)
Descriptors: Accountability, Codes of Ethics, Evaluation Needs, Guidelines
Taylor, Bob L. – North Central Association Quarterly, 1979
Summarizes and supports the position of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Project Committee, which favors a state-provided educational framework of goals, funding, and monitoring technical assistance, and the establishment by local school districts of their own instructional programs that meet individual needs rather than…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Basic Skills, Graduation Requirements
Nazzaro, Jean N. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1979
The text of a conversation with a Florida special education administrator explores such aspects as the skills that are being tested, how standards were derived, the effects of testing on curricula, special diplomas, and the improvement in scores noted in the second year of the testing. (DLS)
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Disabilities
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Wise, Arthur – Educational Leadership, 1979
Minimum competency testing is not so much an educational movement as it is a power struggle. State legislatures will be the winners; teachers and poor students the losers. (Author)
Descriptors: Accountability, Competency Based Education, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Ferguson, Richard L. – 1982
A number of forces are likely to contribute to future issues in educational assessment: (1) reduction in government resources, (2) financial pressures broadening the diversity of post-secondary applicant pools; (3) adult student emergence at the post secondary level; (4) concern with accountability of schools and educators; (5) strengthening of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Trends
Haney, Walt – 1978
Remarks made at several panel discussions are summarized in this narrative report. The discussion topics and speakers include: (1) public education and testing--Tom Tomlinson, Ann Kahn, Herb Mack, and Jean Nazzaro, with remarks by Patricia Albjerg Graham; (2) standards regarding testing--Walt Haney, Barbara Lerner, Ann Cook, Willo White, and Bob…
Descriptors: Accountability, Court Litigation, Educational Testing, Minimum Competency Testing
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Nelson, David; And Others – NASSP Bulletin, 1982
Reviews the principal's role in instructional accountability, management systems, communications, remedial programs, teacher inservice programs, teacher recruitment, and testing. (Author/WD)
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Role, Communication (Thought Transfer), Decision Making
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Weller, L. David – Clearing House, 1980
Suggests that behavioral objectives and minimum competency testing can be effective for monitoring elementary students' mastery of basic skills, but to carry this system into the upper grades and other subject areas risks stultifying learning and inhibiting the free atmosphere that complex thinking and social education require. (SJL)
Descriptors: Accountability, Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Problems, Educational Environment
Pullin, Diana – 1980
Minimum competency testing programs present educational decision makers with a new opportunity to reconsider some fundamental issues in American public education. First, what is the goal of our elementary and secondary educational system? In particular, one must consider the role that minimum competency testing plays in the struggle for equality…
Descriptors: Accountability, Competency Based Education, Decision Making, Educational Objectives
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Gunn, Lee D. – Journal of Law and Education, 1982
A judicial decision on issues raised by state diploma denial found that competency testing of Florida's high school students as a graduation requirement violated due process by not providing students with adequate notice. The court prescribed some degree of curricular validity to determine whether the test covered materials actually taught.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Court Litigation, Due Process, Federal Courts
Carter, David G., Sr. – 1979
Proficiency, or competency, testing is a recent attempt to meet the public demand for accountability. But instead of placing the responsibility on the educational organization, competency testing appears to be a sophisticated approach to holding students and teachers accountable. Although some form of student assessment is needed, it is not yet…
Descriptors: Accountability, Competency Based Education, Court Litigation, Due Process
Anderson, Beverly; Pipho, Chris – Phi Delta Kappan, 1984
An outcome of the excellence movement has been an increase in state control of education, especially through state-mandated testing, as testing has become the preferred means of trying to effect change in education following the popularity of accountability and minimum competency testing. Suggestions for using tests prudently are listed. (DCS)
Descriptors: Accountability, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
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