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Download full textMcNeil, Linda; Valenzuela, Angela – 2000
Drawing on the collective experience of the researchers, their work with teachers and principals, and their previous research in urban schools where students are predominantly Mexican American, this essay outlines the ways in which the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) harms the educational quality and opportunity of minority,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Disadvantaged Youth, Equal Education, High Schools
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Student Assessment Section. – 1982
The Florida Statewide Assessment Program provides "The Practice SSAT-II," for students who will be taking the State Student Assessment Test, Part II (SSAT-II). This practice test may be administered to tenth grade students taking the test for the first time and to eleventh and twelfth graders if they have previously failed the SSAT-II.…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Educational Assessment, Examiners, Grade 10
Dangler, Sue A. – 1994
A survey was completed by 30 administrators in Northwest Ohio who were in charge of the administration and remediation for the Ohio Ninth Grade Proficiency Tests for their respective schools. On a scale of 0 to 5 (0 signifying not at all and 5 signifying great extent), the respondents were asked to rate 20 different intervention and remediation…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Administrators, Grade 9, High School Students
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Research. – 1989
This booklet answers frequently asked questions about the Exit Examination that students in South Carolina must pass before they receive a high school diploma. As provided for by the Education Improvement Act of 1984, the State Board of Education adopted the South Carolina Basic Skills Assessment Program (BSAP) objectives in 1985 as the basis for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Basic Skills, Exit Examinations
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1985
This booklet describes a number of activities initiated in the State of New Jersey to improve academic standards and to help teachers prepare their students for taking New Jersey's High School Proficiency Test (HSPT). The HSPT, administered to all public school ninth graders, is more demanding than the previously used Minimum Basic Skills Test.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Grade 9, Graduation Requirements, High School Graduates
Merkel-Keller, Claudia – 1987
In preparation for the mandatory administration of the New Jersey High School Proficiency Test (HSPT) that was to begin with ninth graders in 1986, a pilot program was conducted with ninth graders who had done poorly on the HSPT during its second, nonmandatory administration in 1985. Approximately 125 students were selected (25 in each of five…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Employment Programs
Catterall, James S. – 1990
Since the mid-1970s, at least 20 states have instituted standardized tests that must be passed before students can receive a high school diploma. This paper draws on data collected in four states to explore some of the lasting effects of competency test legislation. Of particular interest is student awareness of these tests. A survey of 733…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Asian Americans, Black Students, Educational Change
