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Peer reviewedBlee, Myron R. – Innovative Higher Education, 1986
The faculties of the postsecondary institutions in Florida, using the authority of the State Board of Education, have implemented a testing program that increases the assurance that all students who complete their sophomore year in college have achieved the communication and computation skills expected of them. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Students, Communication Skills, Higher Education
Download full textDunbar, Stephen B. – 1991
In light of the National Education Goals of 1990, several arguments against any federally funded large-scale census approach to the assessment of college student learning in the United States are presented to clarify challenges to an objective of Goal 5, which specifies that "the proportion of college graduates who demonstrate advanced…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Graduates, Communication Skills, Critical Thinking
Banta, Trudy W. – 1991
An outline is provided for a national educational assessment and improvement plan as suggested by the National Education Goals of 1990. The following implicit assumptions underlie National Education Objective 5.5: (1) abilities to think critically, communicate effectively, and solve problems can be defined and the definitions can be agreed upon as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Graduates, Communication Skills, Critical Thinking
Morante, Edward A. – 1991
College-level assessment efforts in New Jersey are described. For more than a dozen years, students in public colleges and universities in New Jersey have been assessed using a common statewide instrument, the New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test. This test assesses reading, writing, and mathematics skills of entering college students as…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Cognitive Measurement, College Students, Communication Skills
Millward, Robert E.; Gerlach, Gail J. – 1989
The goal of the Pre Teacher Assessment Center is to give college sophomores a diagnostic assessment of their potential teaching skills across 13 skill dimensions felt to be prerequisites for teaching. The pre teacher assessment provides students with detailed information about potential teaching strengths and weaknesses and helps remediate…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Decision Making, Diagnostic Tests, Higher Education
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1985
A followup to a 1980 General Accounting Office (GAO) report was undertaken to evaluate public and private activities that addressed problems created by U.S. citizens studying medicine abroad and returning to the United States to practice medicine. The 1980 report made suggestions to ensure that U.S. foreign medical graduates received education and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), Agency Cooperation, Certification
