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Peer reviewedBishop, John H.; Mane, Ferran; Bishop, Michael – Educational Leadership, 2001
Compared with minimum competency tests, curriculum-based external exit exams provide better measures of students' achievement levels. Analysis of Third Mathematics and Science Study data shows that 13 year-olds from exit-exam countries are ahead of nonparticipating countries. Effects on college enrollment, job success, and test scores are…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Competency Based Education, Education Work Relationship
Peer reviewedBerman, Ilene M.; Cross, Christopher T.; Evans, Joan – Educational Leadership, 2000
In the Los Angeles Unified School District, 64 percent of its 660 schools increased their norm-referenced test scores from 1998 to 1999. Success stems from a clear, districtwide approach to standards-based learning and broad-based communication about student and school gains. Bancroft Middle School's results-driven approach is profiled. (MLH)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Achievement Gains, Competency Based Education
Peer reviewedBlock, James H. – Educational Leadership, 1979
Having established that mastery learning works, researchers are beginning to investigate components of the system and theorists are integrating it with other recent trends. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adoption (Ideas), Competency Based Education, Educational Research
