Composition, Grammar and Proficiency Testing.

Nations, Alfred

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ERIC Number: EJ260237

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Publication Date: 1981

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Composition, Grammar and Proficiency Testing.

Nations, Alfred

Tennessee Education, v11 n2 p7-10 Fall 1981

Discusses two reasons why the state of writing performance may worsen when, beginning in 1983, Tennessee high school students must pass a proficiency test as a condition for graduation; reasons are the objective nature of the test and the language performance objectives which the test proposes to measure. (NEC)

Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Functional Literacy, Grammar, Minimum Competency Testing, Secondary Education, Test Format, Test Validity, Writing Readiness

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Tennessee

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