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American School Board Journal, 1978
Although the movement toward minimal competency testing has gained enormous momentum, a number of people are pointing out hazards and difficulties in implementing such tests. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Deane, Barbara; Walker, Jerry A. – American School Board Journal, 1978
Most people seem to think the test will lead to improvement in education. Teachers, however, feel they are being made scapegoats and blacks feel that one crop of eleventh graders is being punished for not being able to make up in one year what they haven't learned in eleven. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Black Attitudes, Boards of Education
