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Dorsey, William R., Jr. – 1984
The second round of litigation in the case of Debra P. v. Turlington has required the Federal courts to consider the question whether the Florida statute which requires public high school graduates to demonstrate the "ability to successfully apply basic skills to every day life situations" as measured by the State Student Assessment…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Court Litigation, Court Role, Due Process
Gorce, Martin Joseph; Taylor, Bob L. – 1983
The objective of the study was to determine whether Competency-Based Testing (CBT) schools altered their curriculum differently than Non-Competency-Based Testing schools (NCBT), and, if so, what selected factors were identified as contributing to the differences among the responses secondary schools made to CBT. The data from 410 member high…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Elective Courses
Download full textCrowe, Michael R.; Veach, June P. – 1986
Student participation was examined in three educational programs and their corresponding environments or settings to determine the relationships between situational and demographic variables and basic skills learning and retention. Subjects were secondary students in four high schools and two career centers in a large midwestern urban center. At…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, College Preparation, Educational Research
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. Div. of General Academic Education. – 1989
Raising the level of academic achievement of all students in New Jersey has been a major goal since 1982. As a part of that effort, the focus has changed from the low expectations of the Minimum Basic Skills program to the more rigorous demands of the High School Proficiency Test. This report includes background information on the effort to…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Grade 11, High Schools
Farmer, Jacqueline A.; And Others – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1991
A progressive time delay procedure used in a small group instructional arrangement was successful in teaching four high school students with severe handicaps to read community-referenced words. Two of the students learned additional words by observing their peers. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Functional Reading, High Schools, Observational Learning
Chafin, Ann E. – 1983
The problem of setting standards has always been an issue in the educational community. This paper offers an outline of one state's procedure for setting a passing score for a competency-based test in mathematics. The Maryland Functional Mathematics Test (MFMT) becomes a graduation prerequisite for the graduating class of 1987. The procedures used…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cutting Scores, Graduation Requirements
Matter, M. Kevin; Ligon, Glynn – 1984
This paper describes the development of the Basic Educational Skills Test (BEST) in the Austin Independent School District. In 1982 future options for the AISD minimum competency program, which requires all students to meet minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics before graduation, were evaluated against legal and local criteria. It…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Board of Education Policy, Graduation Requirements, High Schools
Stasz, Cathleen; And Others – 1992
This report documents the second of two studies on teaching and learning generic skills in high schools. It extends the earlier work by providing a model for designing classroom instruction in both academic and vocational classrooms where teaching generic skills is an instructional goal. Ethnographic field methods were used to observe, record, and…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Basic Skills, Case Studies, Classroom Design
Achilles, C. M.; Lintz, M. N. – 1985
Some ninth-grade students from three Knoxville City high schools have continuously performed substantially less well than those from other city schools in the Tennessee State proficiency tests. A task force developed a plan to work with grade 8 in the middle schools and grade 9 in the high schools to prepare students to perform better on state…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis, Competency Based Education
Weber, James M.; Puleo, Nancy F. – 1988
A study was initiated in 1986 to collect systematic national data on the content and processes surrounding the delivery of vocational-technical education programs that could be used to help assess and describe the dynamics of high school vocational classrooms. The national database generated contained information from schools, classrooms, school…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Basic Skills, Career Guidance, Data Collection
Noble, Christopher S.; And Others – 1986
The relationship between item omission and item position on criterion-referenced tests in the Texas state assessment program is examined. Item statistics from the Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills (TEAMS) and Texas Assessment of Basic Skills (TABS) mathematics and reading tests from 1983 through 1985 are examined for three ethnic…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Blacks, Criterion Referenced Tests, Ethnic Groups
Sipe, Cynthia L.; And Others – 1988
The Summer Training and Education Program (STEP) was developed in 1984 as a strategy for reducing the number of young people who leave school without the skills and motivation necessary for productive employment. The STEP intervention involves collaboration between the public schools and the federal Summer Youth Employment and Training Program…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Demography
