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Ross, 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
Bone, Jan – American Education, 1980
Once a year every student in Hazelwood (Missouri) high schools is required to write a composition. This Total School Writing Assessment is a major step in an effort to emphasize writing skills and to make writing competence a requirement for graduation. (SK)
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Graduation Requirements, High Schools, Instructional Improvement

Kibby, Michael W. – Journal of Reading, 1981
Describes the test, The Degrees of Reading Power, developed by the New York State Education Department for use as a formalized "informal reading inventory." (MKM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Informal Reading Inventories, Minimum Competency Testing, Readability

Shriver, Phillip R. – High School Journal, 1979
The President of Miami University of Ohio explains why he has proposed a test of basic reading and writing skills as a graduation requirement at his institution. (SJL)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Students, Degree Requirements, Educational Needs

Coombs, Jerrold R. – High School Journal, 1979
Reviewing the current justifications for minimum competency testing (MCT) programs, the author finds them inadequate. He asks whether reading, writing, and computation skills can be proven necessary for a successful life and whether MCT programs can be demonstrated to be the best means of promoting students' living skills. (SJL)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Daily Living Skills, Educational Needs, Government Role

Wassermann, Selma – Childhood Education, 1979
Examines the purposes of student evaluation and how they influence the daily life of the classroom. Discusses feedback to students and parents, minimum competencies, classroom observations, formal tests, and self-evaluation. (SS)
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Essays

Ewing, Norma J. – High School Journal, 1979
The author examines concerns about whether or not, and by what criteria, handicapped students should be included in or excluded from comprehensive competency testing programs, as well as the implications of minimum competency testing for the handicapped. Pertinent legislation from several states is discussed. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Educational Discrimination

Iwanicki, Edward F. – Education and Urban Society, 1979
The process of setting performance standards must be examined within the particular context in which specific approaches have been used to construct or select the criterion performance measures being utilized. (Author/RLV)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Minimum Competency Testing

Pipho, Chris – Educational Leadership, 1977
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Competency Based Education, Educational Legislation, Minimum Competency Testing
Lively, Kit – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1995
A test that for a decade has been required of Florida college students before they can become juniors will, in 1996, become only one of four ways for students to demonstrate academic readiness. While some expect the change to reduce remedial enrollments, move students through college faster, and improve collaboration between public schools and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation

Schmitz, Constance C.; delMas, Robert C. – Applied Measurement in Education, 1990
Using S. J. Messick's theoretical work concerning construct validity as a guide, underlying hypotheses for investigation when validating placement test decisions are assessed. Guidelines on validating placement decisions are offered, and the hypotheses and guidelines are applied in a validation study of the Written English Expression Placement…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Construct Validity, Guidelines, Higher Education

Ramsey, Roberta S.; Algozzine, Bob – Exceptional Children, 1991
A survey of 46 states found that about half the states are using or studying special education teacher competency tests. The paper analyzes survey results by specific content areas being tested, including basic knowledge, identification and characteristics of special needs students, processing skills, assessment, learning theory, teaching…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Knowledge Level, Minimum Competencies

Foshee, Donald P.; And Others – Remedial and Special Education (RASE), 1991
This paper evaluates relations among criterion-referenced test scores, subsequent predicted remediation need decisions, and actual performance without remediation on Georgia's state minimal competency test. Results from examining 1,310 students' scores indicated that many students would have been required to be remediated who subsequently passed…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Minimum Competencies, Minimum Competency Testing, Remedial Instruction

Tanner, David E. – Urban Review, 1995
Examines whether teaching candidates who passed a basic competency screening test also possessed a level of general academic aptitude significantly higher than those who did not pass. Findings from 293 teachers who took the California Basic Educational Skills Test and had Scholastic Aptitude Test scores available show that requiring minimum…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Educational Research, Minimum Competency Testing, Secondary Education

Chang, Lei; And Others – Applied Measurement in Education, 1996
The influence of judges' knowledge on standard setting for competency tests was studied with 17 judges who took an economics teacher certification test while setting competency standards using the Angoff procedure. Judges tended to set higher standards for items they answered correctly and lower standards for items they answered incorrectly. (SLD)
Descriptors: Competence, Difficulty Level, Economics, Judges