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Webb, Mel – 1983
A comprehensive student basic skills assessment program was developed at St. Louis Community College (SLCC) at Florissant Valley to appraise student readiness to take courses, gather information for counseling and advising, diagnose student problems, and evaluate program efficiency and effectiveness. The steps taken in developing the program were:…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Educational Counseling, Educational Testing
Download full textSchafer, William D. – 2000
The Department of Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation (EDMS) at the University of Maryland is working to develop Master's degree programs that are oriented around developing assessment professionals for work in applied settings. Two fundamentally different sets of experiences are being developed: (1) assessment development, administration, and…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Assessment, Educational Testing, Evaluation Methods
Johnson, Richard T.; Thomas, Wayne P. – 1979
The experiences of state and local education agencies in implementing the RMC evaluation models in their evaluations of Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I programs are discussed with emphasis on the problems encountered, suggestions for resolving these problems, and encouraging results which have been reported. Four activities are…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Compensatory Education, Data Processing, Educational Testing
Mitchell, Thomas R. – 1989
Laredo Junior College (LJC) is a comprehensive community college in Texas, serving a student population that is 93% Hispanic and 61% female. In response to evidence that LJC was not adequately preparing students with the basic and academic skills needed to transfer, LJC expanded and restructured its assessment, placement, and remediation programs.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Minter, Mary; And Others – 1978
As a result of the increasing insistence that schools should concentrate on teaching basic skills, states and school districts have moved to establish minimum competencies for high school graduation, to be assessed by tests that demonstrate that students have achieved a certain level of mastery of basic skills. The Austin, Texas, Independent…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Board of Education Policy
Law, Gordon F., Jr., Ed. – 1974
The first section of the guide contains the text of two speeches dealing with the current challenges of career education and the school counselor, presented at the 1972 New Jersey Regional Career Education Conferences. The second and larger section contains a variety of materials resulting from a series of conferences in 1973 aimed at developing…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Career Education, Conference Reports, Curriculum Development
