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PDF pending restorationHiscox, Michael D. – 1979
Components of the Proficiency Testing System (PTS) designed for the Central Valley School District, Washington, are described. Components are: (1) progress assessment, consisting of norm referenced tests, writing samples, diagnostic tests, and ability checklists; (2) user assistance, including an objectives manual, inservice workshop, and a…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Criterion Referenced Tests
Far West Lab. for Educational Research and Development, San Francisco, CA. – 1978
This document contains an overview of the Far West Laboratory (FWL) model for Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE). (Descriptions of two other EBCE models are included in ERIC documents CE 018 446 and CE 018 449.) Divided into seven sections, this document highlights some of the important features of the model and includes excerpts of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration
Fishbein, Ronald L.; Wilmer, Mary Ann – 1979
The differences between Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I program evaluation and minimum competency testing (MCT) are compared. Title I programs are characterized as follows: the objective is to supplement school experiences for economically educational programs emphasize reading and mathematics; supplementary instruction is provided by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Differences
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. National Assessment of Educational Progress. – 1979
The 168 items selected for administration to 7,905 17-year olds in 1976-77, were developed from existing National Assessment items and from existing sets of life/coping skills. Skills designated as basic included: career development; citizenship; community resource utilization; consumer protection; family management; health maintenance; and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Daily Living Skills, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Download full textOntario Dept. of Education, Toronto. – 1975
As a statement of Provincial goals and curriculum objectives for primary and junior divisions of Ontario elementary schools, this circular is intended to stimulate school self-evaluation, particularly in the basic skills area. The major responsibility for curricular planning however, rests with the school and the individual teacher. Province goals…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives
Russell, Nolan F. – 1974
Although it is difficult both to determine educational goals and to measure goal attainment, the Educational Quality Assessment Inventory (EQAI) has ambitiously tackled both problems. During a five-year period 45 separate instruments containing over 2000 items were constructed, revised, rejected, and accepted in preparation for the present…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Basic Skills, Confidentiality, Creativity
Russell, Nolan F. – 1975
The Secondary Form of the Educational Quality Assessment (EQA) Inventory is designed for 11th grade students in Commonwealth public schools. Test scales are designed to measure some facet of state quality assessment goals. Along with basic skills, the various instruments examine: (1) social and health habits, (2) feelings toward self and others,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Basic Skills, Confidentiality, Creativity
PDF pending restorationNebraska State Dept. of Education, Lincoln. Div. of Instructional Services. – 1972
The purpose of this publication is to define minimal competencies for foreign language classes. The term "simulation" refers to role playing. The simulations are stated in terms of practical communication performance objectives. The intent is to have the student direct his learning in the basic skills toward an immediate objective rather than a…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Traits
Frybarger, Malinda J. – 1995
A study examined the delivery of workplace know-how skills training to secondary-level students in Kalamazoo County, Michigan. A total of 16 teachers, administrators, and counselors from the county's schools were interviewed regarding existing mechanisms for delivering training in 23 workplace know-how skills that a group of local employers had…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Basic Skills, Behavior Patterns, Classroom Techniques
Peer reviewedJohnson, B. Lamar, Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1982
Issues in defining and conceptualizing general education in the two-year college are examined in this collection of essays. After introductory remarks, B. Lamar Johnson reviews the findings of the 1952 California Study of General Education and discusses their current applicability. Next, K. Patricia Cross reviews trends in general education from…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Role, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
Fremer, John; Dwyer, Carol A. – 1977
State and school district testing activities involving basic reading competency requirements are discussed. The purposes of minimum competency testing in reading include the identification of students who need remedial assistance, and the evaluation of secondary school students regarding graduation requirements. Important considerations regarding…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests, Diagnostic Tests
Alberta Evaluation Research Associates, Ltd., Calgary. – 1968
An independent, external evaluation of the compensatory component of the Educational Opportunities Fund of Alberta, Canada covered the period from July 1973 to June 1976 and focused on twenty-one northern Alberta school districts. Results revealed that pupil mastery of basic skills has improved and pupil selfconfidence has increased since the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Handicapped, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education
Wang, Margaret C.; And Others – 1974
The Primary Education Project (PEP) is concerned with the development and evaluation of a model of individualized education for young children suitable for implementation in American public schools at the preschool through primary grade level. It is concerned with all aspects of school functioning: curriculum, classroom organization, teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Class Organization, Classification
Crowson, Robert L.; Wilbur, Thomas P. – 1970
The Michigan Assessment Program was proposed and designed to provide an improved information base for research and planning. Its assumptions were that education is an important investiment in human welfare, both school and non-school inputs influence educational performance, educational services are inequitably distributed, and resources available…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Decision Making, Educational Objectives, Educational Opportunities
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia.
Guidelines intended to aid in the improvement of foreign language instruction are directed toward the development of a relevant and contemporary language program. Six major chapters discuss: (1) the place of foreign languages in the modern curriculum, (2) the program in operation, (3) treatment of skills and cultural concepts of contemporary…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Audiolingual Methods, Basic Skills, Course Content
