Descriptor
Competency Based Education | 3 |
Disabilities | 3 |
Minimum Competency Testing | 3 |
Accountability | 2 |
Individualized Instruction | 2 |
Academic Standards | 1 |
Adolescents | 1 |
Basic Skills | 1 |
Curriculum | 1 |
Educational Policy | 1 |
Elementary Secondary Education | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 2 |
Books | 1 |
Collected Works - Proceedings | 1 |
Guides - General | 1 |
Information Analyses | 1 |
Opinion Papers | 1 |
Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Practitioners | 1 |
Location
Florida | 2 |
California | 1 |
Georgia | 1 |
North Carolina | 1 |
Oregon | 1 |
Virginia | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
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
Pullin, Diana – Exceptional Education Quarterly: Special Issue on Special Education for Adolescents and Young Adults, 1980
The major issues addressed include the extent to which handicapped students should participate in or be exempt from the testing program, whether tests and scoring criteria should be adapted for individual handicapped students or categories of students, and whether differential diplomas should be awarded to handicapped students on the basis of test…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Competency Based Education, Disabilities, Evaluation Criteria
Jaeger, Richard M., Ed.; Tittle, Carol Kehr, Ed.
Addressing often neglected broad issues, rather than the pragmatics of test development and administration, this Conference on Minimum Competency Achievement Testing was organized around six topics: (1) social and philosophical roots, uniqueness among testing movements, and policy issues; (2) legal, curricular, and social-demographic consequences;…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Competency Based Education, Curriculum