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Direct linkBoyle, Bill; Charles, Marie – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2011
The paper focuses on the auditing and accountancy paradigm that has dominated educational measurement of pupil performance for the last 20 years in England. The advocates of this minimum competency paradigm do not take account of the results of its dominance. These results include ignoring the heterogeneous complexity of groups within societies…
Descriptors: Audits (Verification), Models, Minimum Competency Testing, Young Children
Peer reviewedGuthrie, John T. – Reading Teacher, 1981
Traces the history of minimum competency testing in the United States from 1890 to the present. (FL)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Trends
Peer reviewedRoss, Dorene D. – Peabody Journal of Education, 1980
A problem raised by teacher use of basic skills checklists is the possibility of focusing on listed skills to the exclusion of others, including necessary prerequisite skills. (JMF)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Check Lists, Classroom Research, Curriculum Design
Marzano, Robert J. – 1978
A study was designed to identify highly teachable composing skills that have a strong statistical relationship with composition quality across various grade levels. Sample compositions were randomly selected from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (1972). A total of 750 compositions written by 9-, 13-, and 17-year-old-students (250…
Descriptors: Achievement, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation
Download full textOlson, Allan L.; Cutting, Pamela J., Ed. – 1978
This sourcebook describes specific sources of potential utility to those responsible for designing, installing, and operating competency-based education (CBE) programs. Four major types of resources are described--available materials from which selections may be made; products that provide guidelines for selecting from available materials;…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Educational Objectives, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education
Clay, James E., Comp. – 1982
The guide lists 1,097 resources (periodicals, media, books, papers, dissertations, modules, and other items) on the topic of mainstreaming handicapped children. Entries are organized alphabetically by author's last name and include title, source, date and brief description. Twenty-two topics are considered: assessment, attitudes, cooperative…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
Blake, Robert W., Ed. – Impact on Instructional Improvement, 1979
The five articles in this journal issue are intended for use by school administrators, and provide information on how to organize effective programs for achieving student writing competency. The first article discusses the development of New York State's Preliminary and Regents Competency Tests in Writing, analyzes sample student responses to one…
Descriptors: Competence, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing, Program Content
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of English Education. – 1979
This booklet contains selected proceedings of the 1979 conference entitled "Competency Testing and Beyond: Improving Student Writing" held in Albany, New York. Topics covered in the 17 selections are: the "real" world and the teaching of English, what has been learned about competency testing in writing, the composing process, diagnosing student…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities, Minimum Competency Testing, Parent Role
Koenke, Karl; Monteith, Mary K – 1978
Increased public concern about students' basic skill levels and about the need for minimum-competency tests has placed part of the responsibility for reading-skills development on content-area teachers. This annotated bibliography is a resource guide for content-area teachers who want to integrate reading-skills instruction with their subject…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics
Peer reviewedHall, Bruce W.; And Others – Applied Measurement in Education, 1988
Responses of 310 teachers in Florida to a survey about use of teacher-made tests, nationally standardized tests, and state minimum competency tests were studied. Results show that all three test types were used to some extent in eight decision categories, but none of the tests were clearly dominant. (SLD)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing
Gibbs, Vanita M., Comp.; Pabst, Robert L., Comp. – 1982
One of a series of publications on selected aspects of reading curriculum development, this monograph contains eight papers that deal with expectations in the teaching of reading. Topics covered include (1) the relationship between reading and writing, (2) changing expectations in education, (3) skills programs for remedial readers, (4) ways to…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Elementary Secondary Education, Expectation, Learning Activities
Frederiksen, Norman – 1994
Past research on the effects of Minimum Competency Tests (MCT) on teaching and learning is reviewed, and the large database of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is used to shed more light on these effects. There seems to be little doubt that MCT, together with associated changes in instructional methods, has produced some…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Age Differences, Educational History
Reed, Linda, Ed.; Ward, Spencer, Ed. – 1982
Resulting from a project involving district, state, and federal educational agencies, the papers in this, the first of two volumes, are intended to provide information from research and practice that can help school districts in their efforts to make decisions about goals and methods of basic skills instruction. The topics of the papers in the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Educational Administration, Educational Cooperation
Peer reviewedLong, Maxine M., Ed.; McCleary, William J., Ed. – English Record, 1980
The seven articles in this journal issue deal with the politics and practice of teaching writing. The articles focus on the following topics: (1) efforts to establish educational accountability, including competency based teacher education, licensing of teachers, and minimum competency testing; (2) methods for teaching students to use intuition in…
Descriptors: Accountability, Autobiographies, Basic Skills, Cohesion (Written Composition)
