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Pogrow, Stanley – Phi Delta Kappan, 1990
Chapter 1 service providers assume that children suffer from a knowledge deficit best treated through remedial instruction. Actually, remedial students do not understand "understanding." The Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) project stimulates four general thinking techniques (metacognition, inference from context, decontextualization,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Learning Activities
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
Ebel, Robert L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Minimum competency testing will help restore concern for cognitive development to the highest priority, and motivate teachers to teach more purposefully and students to work harder. A discussion of the kinds of tests to be used is included. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing
Van Til, William – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Based on the Florida experience, one should expect, among other things, new problems for minority students, lawsuits against the tests, calls for tests of teachers, and scapegoating and blaming. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Literacy, Minority Groups
House, Ernest R.; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Outlines problems with the U. S. Office of Education sponsored report on Project Follow Through. The problems are in the areas of classification of models, measurement techniques, methods of analysis, and fairness. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Data Analysis, Early Childhood Education, Evaluation Methods
Raybin, Ron – Phi Delta Kappan, 1977
Describes the development and implementation of Pasadena's minimum essentials program in English. (IRT)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, English Curriculum
Guthrie, John T.; Kirsch, Irwin S. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1984
Proposes redefining the problem of illiteracy in terms of a "social-interaction perspective" that would emphasize the need "to acculturate students to the practices of reading in their communities" and the broad range of reading competencies required by today's society. (JBM)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Functional Literacy, Functional Reading
Brophy, Jere – Phi Delta Kappan, 1982
A significant body of research, including several large-scale correlational studies, indicates that effective teachers of the basic skills differ systematically from those who are ineffective. Eight teacher characteristics are associated with success in producing achievement gains, including expectations, classroom management, curriculum pacing,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Reviews
Holdzkom, David – Phi Delta Kappan, 1991
A central concern of Joseph Milner's February 1991 "Kappan" article critiquing the North Carolina Teacher Performance Assessment Instrument is that teacher evaluation will drive teaching. He errs in confusing essential skills with basic skills, ignoring all teacher evaluation's purposes except instructional improvement, and claiming the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Improvement
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
Bracey, Gerald W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Replies to the immediately preceding article. The author contends that the cause of incompetence resides more in the overall ambience of disaffection in the nation than in the schools. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education
Brown, Rexford – Phi Delta Kappan, 1987
Schools need more incentives to begin to produce more "thoughtfulness." As it is now they respond by "getting by" because they are only held accountable for minimal levels of achievement. Policymakers need to develop a different system of acccountability. (MD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development
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
