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Peer reviewedAntonelli, George A. – Action in Teacher Education, 1985
The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff has designed and developed programs to enhance the status of minority students, maximize the performance of Black students and teachers on standardized tests, increase the number of Black teachers in Arkansas, and revitalize the image of teacher education at UAPB. (MT)
Descriptors: Black Students, Black Teachers, Higher Education, Minimum Competency Testing
Peer reviewedJones, Donald W. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 1988
The teacher education profession must develop a program to assess essential elements of professional knowledge comprising a teacher education curricula so that institutions can prepare teachers who can demonstrate that they have gained an acceptable mastery of cognitive and affective learning. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Minimum Competency Testing, Program Development, Teacher Education Curriculum
Peer reviewedNelli, Elizabeth; Minnis, Bernard – Action in Teacher Education, 1986
The development of an intervention program initiated by the Kentucky Department of Education to ensure that minority education majors have access to training in skills needed for standardized tests is described. (MT)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Knowledge Level, Language Skills, Minimum Competency Testing
Hoetker, James; And Others – 1982
The efforts of researchers to produce a pool of approximately 30 validated and field-tested topics for use in future administrations of the Florida Teacher Certification Examination in writing are reviewed in this paper. Various sections of the paper (1) describe the procedures followed; (2) explain the reasons for making certain important…
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Higher Education, Minimum Competency Testing, Program Development
Lederman, Marie Jean – 1980
The development of the City University of New York's writing assessment test is discussed in this paper. Its relationship to the total freshman skills assessment program, which also involves the assessment of minimal competencies in mathematics and reading, is related. The discussion of the test includes descriptions of the test development…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation
Download full textTexas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Austin. – 1995
The Texas Academic Skills Program (TASP) is a statewide program designed to ensure that all students attending public colleges and universities have the basic reading, mathematics, and writing skills necessary to perform effectively at the college level. All entering first-time freshmen are required to take the TASP test, which has a basic skills…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Educational Testing, Graduation Requirements
Constantinides, Janet C., Ed. – 1988
This document presents some 20 papers on projects conducted by Foreign Teaching Assistant (FTA) participants in the areas of academic/pedagogical issues, cross-cultural issues, and testing issues. Papers are as follows: "The Testing and Evaluation of Foreign Teaching Assistants: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?" (Ralph Pat Barrett);…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Students, Graduate Students
Freeze, Chester R.; And Others – 1984
In 1979, Act 187, known now as the Educator Improvement Act, was mandated by the legislature of the State of South Carolina. One tenet of Act 187 was the establishment of an Educator Improvement Task Force to develop an instrument which could effectively measure minimal teaching competencies. To help in the content and design of the instrument,…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Classroom Observation Techniques, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education
Garcia, Nilda, Comp.; Ortega, Jaime, Comp. – 1980
Covering the Bi-regional Conference on the Education of Hispanics which was held February 14-16, 1980, in San Antonio, Texas, this text is a verbatim report of selected papers presented. Presentations in the post-secondary sessions deal with the Hispanic variable in higher education (five papers); program and professional development and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Selection, Bilingual Education, Desegregation Effects
