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Competency-Based Testing and Credentialing: Addressing Inequity in Adult Education via State Policy Reform
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Austin S. Jennings – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2025
Competency-based testing and credentialing (CBTC) initiatives aim to address inequity in adult education by fundamentally changing how states use GED®, HiSET®, and TASC™ test scores to award and withhold high school equivalency credentials. However, CBTC is inconsistent with how developers intend states to use those scores. Accordingly, it falls…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Minimum Competency Testing, Credentials, Equal Education
The GED® Program Policy Manual
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GED Testing Service, 2018
The manual is presented in the form of a policy grid. The grid includes a consolidated list of General Educational Development (GED) Testing Service policies regarding the GED® test and overall GED® program. The grid combines all of the policies into one unified table and supersedes any prior policy manual.
Descriptors: High School Equivalency Programs, Equivalency Tests, Testing Programs, Educational Policy
Review of Adult Learning and Literacy, Volume 5. Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice: A Project of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
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Comings, John, Ed.; Garner, Barbara, Ed.; Smith, Cristine, Ed. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2005
"The Review of Adult Learning and Literacy: Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice, Volume 5" is a volume in a series of annual publications of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) that address major issues, the latest research, and the best practices in the field of adult literacy and learning.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Credentials, Metacognition