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Ewing, Norma J.; Smith, James – 1981
Common practices regarding competency testing for handicapped students have ranged from inclusion and exclusion to selective inclusion based on handicapping condition. Factors involved in deciding about minimum competency testing include conceptualizing the categories of handicaps into two groups: students who require a modified learning…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduation Requirements

Grise, Philip J. – Special Services in the Schools, 1986
The article reviews minimum competency requirements for handicapped students in the 39 states which have set minimum standards indicating a range from total exclusion of handicapped students from the testing program to required participation with no modifications. It is suggested that separate minimum standards be defined for special education…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduation Requirements, Minimum Competencies
Beard, Jacob G. – 1986
During the last decade many school systems began to define minimum levels of competency for their students and to construct tests to measure whether students had achieved these minimums. Many states have passed laws which require high school students to pass minimum competency tests in order to graduate. This digest overviews four areas of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduation Requirements, Minimum Competency Testing

Vitello, Stanley J. – Remedial and Special Education (RASE), 1988
The article analyzes three policy options in the competency testing of handicapped students: (1) requiring the handicapped to pass a competency test; (2) exempting the handicapped from such tests if their Individualized Education Plan requirements are met; and (3) development of differential competency standards for these students. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduation Requirements
Henderson, Donald J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
All students except the mentally handicapped are required to show by examination that they are able to read, speak, and understand ordinary English; write a simple, correct, intelligible paragraph; and perform with reasonable mastery fundamental mathematical processes. (Author)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduation Requirements, High Schools
Splitt, David A. – Executive Educator, 1984
The New Jersey law permitting a period of silence in schools was struck down by a federal court judge who held that the law was intended to circumvent the proscription against government entanglement in religion. The New York Supreme Court has upheld the competency test for obtaining high school diplomas. (MLF)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduation Requirements, Meditation

Schneider, Kenneth E. – Journal of Special Education Leadership, 2002
Discussion of the effect of minimum competency tests for graduation notes both positive (such as greater access to the general curriculum) and negative (such as increased referrals to special education) to improve a school's overall scores. Continually changing special education procedures are seen, however, to have led to a decline in teachers…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Change, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Irving Independent School District, TX. – 1986
The results are presented of district-wide standardized testing in the Irving (Texas) Independent School District for the 1985-86 school year. This was the first year in which the Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills (TEAMS) was implemented. It was administered to students in odd-numbered grades, whereas all other students took the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduation Requirements, Local Norms
Jackson, Michael; Battiste, Barbara – 1978
Competency testing for either graduation from high school, or as a method for assessing whether a student should advance to a higher grade level, is the focus of this annotated bibliography. Included are annotations that relate to accountability, competency testing, program descriptions where competency testing is utilized, general testing…
Descriptors: Accountability, Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Skills, Educational Trends

Lloyd, R. Grann – Negro Educational Review, 1980
In addition to stigmatizing and prejudicing the future of young people, the denial of a high school diploma based on test scores represents a waste of public funds and human resources. In recent years, however, the educational system has been increasingly concerned with testing school children rather than teaching them. (Author/GC
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Functional Literacy
Merrill, Beverly; Peterson, Sarah – 1986
When the Mesa, Arizona Public Schools initiated an ambitious writing instruction program in 1978, two assessments based on student writing samples were developed. The first is based on a ninth grade proficiency test. If the student does not pass the test, high school remediation is provided. After 1987, students must pass this test in order to…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduation Requirements, Holistic Evaluation
Bodner, Joanne Records; And Others – 1987
The study surveyed the 50 states and the District of Columbia to identify current state policies that regulate graduation requirements and to determine how these policies have been applied to programs for high school special education students. Survey results produced four major findings: (1) all but three states have legislation or state board of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disabilities, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Pipho, Chris – 1977
The issue of minimal competency testing for high school graduation and grade to grade promotion as a method of emphasizing the teaching of basic skills and guaranteeing that the high school diploma will "mean something" has received widespread legislative attention in recent years. In this report, data pertaining to the enforcement of minimal…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Candor-Chandler, Catherine – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
The key elements to this plan for special education students are keeping a check on student achievement throughout all the grades, communicating with parents about student deficiencies, and requiring competency tests of all high school students. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Persons
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. Test Collection. – 1991
The 32 tests described in this bibliography cover grades K-12 and are used to assess minimum competency in individual subjects such as mathematics, reading, or writing, or other basic academic areas. Several of the tests are state minimum competency examinations which students must pass in order to graduate. This document is one in a series of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Skills, Diagnostic Tests