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Download full textFalk, Beverly; And Others – 1996
This paper describes the development and outcomes of New York State's "Invitation to Invention," the Regents Exam Options Project. Initiated as a temporary strategy to encourage and support local changes in teaching and assessment toward the learner-centered reforms taking place in the state, the project provided high school teachers and…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Cooperative Learning, Educational Testing, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedHughes, Ruth P.; Fanslow, Alyce – Journal of Home Economics, 1975
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Educational Testing, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Instruments
Peer reviewedMcKenna, Bernard – Educational Horizons, 1979
Citing William Spady's distinction between capacity and competence, the author asserts that current competency tests mainly measure academic (capacity) not life (competency) skills. He then considers problems inherent in delineating, teaching, and testing essential practical living competencies and presents some alternatives. Part of a theme issue…
Descriptors: Competence, Competency Based Education, Daily Living Skills, Definitions
Peer reviewedBiggs, John – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1995
Different models of performance assessment arise from interactions of three dimensions of assessment: the measurement versus the standards model of testing, quantitative and qualitative assumptions concerning the nature of learning, and whether learning and testing are situated or decontextualized. Addresses difficulties in implementing…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Educational Research
Ingle, Robert B., Ed.; And Others – 1978
Three conference sessions focused on attempts to implement minimum competency testing programs at various educational levels. In each of the sessions particular attention was paid to planning for the development of a minimum competency testing program; the processes of development, initiation, and interpretation of the results; and difficulties…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competence, Competency Based Education, Conference Reports
Bossone, Richard M., Ed.; Troyka, Lynn Quitman, Ed. – 1977
On March 4, 1977, the Center for Advanced Study in Education (CASE) of the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the Board of Education of the City of New York co-sponsored a National Conference on Minimum Competencies: Trends and Issues. Six papers were presented: "An Overview Regarding Minimal…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Conference Reports, Educational Assessment
Minter, Mary; And Others – 1978
As a result of the increasing insistence that schools should concentrate on teaching basic skills, states and school districts have moved to establish minimum competencies for high school graduation, to be assessed by tests that demonstrate that students have achieved a certain level of mastery of basic skills. The Austin, Texas, Independent…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Board of Education Policy
1976
On March 11 and 12, 1976, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a project of the Education Commission of the States (ECS), and the Clearinghouse for Applied Performance Testing (CAPT), a project of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL), cohosted a Minimal Competency Measurement Conference in Denver, Colorado.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Agency Role, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education
