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Download full textAustin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1982
This technical report details the testing results and analyses supporting the evaluation findings related to the Austin (Texas) Independent School District (AISD) minimum competency graduation requirements. The graduation competency status of all AISD students in grades 8 to 12 are documented. The report provides additional information on the data…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Data Collection
Haney, Walt; And Others – 1981
The National Consortium on Testing undertook a case study of South Carolina's competency testing program. The Basic Skills Assessment Act (BSAA) passed in 1978 provided for the Basic Skills Assessment Program (BSAP). This program seemed a progressive approach because it is keyed to particular educational objectives. It is being implemented…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Case Studies, Educational Assessment, Minimum Competency Testing
Brown, Janet R.; And Others – 1992
The Developmental Studies Department (DSD) at Rockland Community College (RCC), in Suffern, New York, provides courses and services to assist students lacking college-level skills in the areas of reading, writing, mathematics, study skills, and English. An additional pilot project, the RCC/Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) has…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education, Developmental Studies Programs
Marion, Paul – Journal of Developmental & Remedial Education, 1979
Summarizes the basic skills testing programs of Pennsylvania State University, City University of New York, University System of Georgia, and the state of New Jersey. Discusses the use of test results, remedial courses offered, administration of the programs, and program evaluation. (JM)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educationally Disadvantaged, Minimum Competency Testing, Multicampus Colleges
Wakefield, Alice P., Ed. – 1987
This program was designed to examine ways to assess competencies in basic skills, as well as ways to remediate those secondary students found lacking in these skills. Students were identified through the use of their Basic Skills Assessment Program (BSAP) scores. Teachers reassigned to remedial classes revealed a need for teaching teachers to work…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Basic Skills, Diagnostic Teaching, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedChowdhury, A. M. R.; And Others – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de l'Education, 1994
Describes Assessment of Basic Competencies (ABC), a methodology for measuring writing, arithmetic, and selected life skills that is simple, inexpensive, and easy to reproduce. Provides results of a pilot implementation of ABC among 2,100 children in Bangladesh between the ages of 11 and 12. (35 citations) (MAB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Developing Nations, Early Adolescents
Crockett, Geraldine T. – 1977
This is a final evaluation report for three Title VII programs conducted in the Seattle, Washington, school district in 1977. The programs reviewed include: (1) Basic Skills Impact Model (BSIM), an effort to provide basic skills remediation to underachieving students; (2) Minimum Competencies Assurance Program (MinCAP), a remedial program designed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Fisher, Thomas H. – 1979
As a result of the 1976 Educational Accountability Act, minimal competency tests were developed for grades 3, 5, 8 and 11 by the Florida State Board of Education. Results of the first administration of the 11th grade tests showed that the failure rate for minority black students was much higher than for white students. Results of the tests…
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Blacks, Criterion Referenced Tests
Isaac, Stephen – 1981
A recent California Supreme Court ruling required San Diego Unified School District to implement a course of study in its minority isolated schools that would result in 50 percent of the students achieving at or above national norms on the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills. In response to the court order, the district initiated the Achievement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Compliance (Legal)
PDF pending restorationAkst, Geoffrey – 1978
Minimum competency testing, in which passing a uniform test is necessary (but not sufficient) for promotion or graduation, has been carried out in a number of colleges, including the City University of New York (CUNY). Competency programs usually have three basic components: placement testing, remedial instruction, and exit testing. Competency…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Basic Skills, College Programs
Hartman-Haas, Hope J.; Brandao, Delores L. – 1982
Parents, teachers and administrators examined the Basic Skills Program in the Newark School District. The study was designed: (1) to determine the relative satisfaction with components of the reading and math aligned curricula and instructional time, (2) to determine the relationship between satisfaction with these variables and achievement, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Basic Skills, Elementary Education
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. Bureau of Research and Assessment. – 1982
This report describes the design of an implementation evaluation of the Massachusetts Basic Skills Improvement Policy, to be conducted during 1982-83. The Policy and Regulations were enacted in 1978-79 when school districts were required to develop basic skills improvement plans. In 1980-81 districts were required to implement their plans.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing
Dyer, Patricia A., Ed. – 1981
This annual report by the Developmental Mathematics Curriculum Committee (DMCC) of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) includes seven subcommittee reports. After introductory material, the annual report outlines the DMCC's goals, enumerates its objectives for 1981 through 1986, and establishes revised goals for the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Calculators, Community Colleges, Evaluation Methods
Womack, Nancy H., Comp. – 2001
This report describes assessment and outcomes at Isothermal Community College (ICC) (North Carolina), focusing on four areas: institutional assessment, program assessment, classroom (course) assessment, and individual student assessment. Competencies and their criteria are outlined and include: (1) communications--upon completion of an associate's…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Office of Program Evaluation and Research. – 1980
California's Pupil Proficiency Law requires each local school district to adopt standards of proficiency in the basic skills of reading comprehension, writing, and computation. Students are to be assessed in grades 4-11. Students not making sufficient progress towards meeting the district's standards are to be provided with remedial programs, and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Case Studies, Computation, Educational Assessment
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