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Wise, Arthur E. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Reason and evidence provide little, if any, justification for the belief that minimum competency testing will help poor students to learn or poor teachers to teach. (Author)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Policy, Minimum Competency Testing, State Standards
Anderson, Barry D.; Lesser, Philip – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Discusses the costs of developing, administering, and regulating state competency tests as well as of the compensatory programs that the tests will make necessary, and then suggests five ways of reducing these costs. (IRT)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Costs, Elementary Secondary Education
Beal, Barry B. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Since 1960 Denver has operated a testing program designed to assure that high school graduates possess minimum competence in four basic areas--arithmetic, spelling, grammar, and reading comprehension. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Graduation Requirements, High Schools
Fremer, John – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Replies to the immediately preceding article. (IRT)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing
Henderson, Donald J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
All students except the mentally handicapped are required to show by examination that they are able to read, speak, and understand ordinary English; write a simple, correct, intelligible paragraph; and perform with reasonable mastery fundamental mathematical processes. (Author)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduation Requirements, High Schools
Owen, Samuel A.; Ranick, Deborah L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1977
Describes a program in which student promotion is based on achievement. Standardized test scores have risen as a result of the program. (IRT)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Mastery Learning
Findley, Jim – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Students graduating from Westside High must meet hour and competency test requirements. The seven competency tests are in reading, writing, mathematics, democratic process, problem-solving, oral communication, and consumerism. (IRT)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Graduation Requirements, High School Students
Brickell, Henry M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
There is a great deal to think about in a minimum competency program: What competencies? How to measure? When to measure? One minimum or many? How high the minimum? Minimums for students or for schools? What to do with the incompetent? (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests
Fisher, Thomas H. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Graduation Requirements
