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Download full textNorth Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. – 1978
The results are reported of the North Carolina Competency Testing Program. The Senior High Assessment of Reading Performance (SHARP) and the Test of Performance in Computational Skills (TOPICS), modified for the North Carolina program, have been administered to eleventh-grade students in public, nonpublic, federal, and special schools. Both tests…
Descriptors: Grade 11, Graduation Requirements, High School Students, High Schools
Merkel-Keller, Claudia – 1992
New Jersey has taken steps to improve vocational education programs and services in response to two state reports and the measurement and evaluation requirements of the reauthorized Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-392). Among state initiatives is the Occupational Competency Project, a study of 100…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
Wonderlic, Charles F.; And Others – 1990
This report provides a method for determining minimum score by vocational program based on the use of the Wonderlic Scholastic Level Exam (SLE). The SLE has been demonstrated to be a highly accurate and reliable measure of adult cognitive ability. It is currently in use as an admissions test at many career colleges and trade schools. The SLE test…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adults, Career Education, Cognitive Tests
Catterall, James S. – 1990
Since the mid-1970s, at least 20 states have instituted standardized tests that must be passed before students can receive a high school diploma. This paper draws on data collected in four states to explore some of the lasting effects of competency test legislation. Of particular interest is student awareness of these tests. A survey of 733…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Asian Americans, Black Students, Educational Change
Taylor, Scott – 1979
A survey was conducted in Massachusetts in October-November 1978, to determine the public's attitude toward the educational objectives proposed as part of the state's Basic Skills Improvement Policy. The objectives involved standards for graduation from high school, and covered reading, writing, listening, speaking, and mathematics. Three samples…
Descriptors: Adults, Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Ohio State Legislative Office of Education Oversight, Columbus. – 1993
This report, mandated by Ohio's 119th General Assembly, examines the fairness and appropriateness of the state's ninth-grade proficiency test. Under the assumption that it is indeed fair and appropriate to have a single, statewide graduation standard for all students, the study focuses on the issue of whether the test, as developed and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Citizenship Education, Focus Groups, Grade 9
Belcher, Marcia J.; Downing, Sherry – 1990
A recent study of Dade County Public School (DCPS) graduates attending Miami-Dade Community College (M-DCC) revealed that 64% of those who graduated high school in 1989 had failed one or more of the basic skills sub-tests of the Florida Multiple Assessment Programs and Services test (FL-MAPS). Another study was conducted in 1989 to determine the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Bound Students, College Freshmen, College Preparation
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
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1986
The Texas Educational Assessement of Minimum Skills (TEAMS) was developed by the Texas Education Agency (TEA), in response to Texas House Bill 72 (1984), which mandated as new basic skills assessment program for mathematics, reading, and writing at grades 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11. This is one in a series of Instructional Strategies Guides designed to…
Descriptors: Algebra, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Computation
Berney, Tomi D.; Friedman, Grace Ibanez – 1989
The state-funded New York City Staff Development Program in Mathematics was a five-workshop series serving bilingual/English-as-a-Second-Language teachers teaching mathematics, and mathematics teachers unfamiliar with the special needs of limited-English-proficient (LEP) high school students. Supervisors were also invited to participate. Workshop…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Educational Strategies
Bunda, Mary Anne – 1978
Three areas of concern for those considering competency-based graduation requirements are discussed. First, what is involved in implementing a competency-based graduation requirement? The first tasks are the specification of performance standards and the performance skill areas. Then, appropriate certification procedures can be selected, and their…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Criterion Referenced Tests
Harkness, Suzanne C. – 1986
One hundred and three students from the 1985 graduating class of Hightstown (New Jersey) High School took New Jersey's College Basic Skills Placement Test (CBSPT) after entering two-year and four-year colleges in New Jersey. The 103, who represented the entire distribution of class ranks, rated themselves fairly accurately on their abilities in…
Descriptors: Class Rank, College Attendance, College Entrance Examinations, English Curriculum
Quest, Carol; Liu, Kristin; Thurlow, Martha – 1997
This report describes the findings of 10 focus group meetings that discussed issues related to the performance of students with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) on Minnesota's Basic Standards Exams. Ten groups were formed, with one group of parents and one of students representing each of the following language communities: Cambodian, Hmong, Lao,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment
Airasian, Peter W.; And Others – 1978
The justification of minimal competency programs relative to perceived educational problems, the focus on individual pupil certification and sanctioning, and the lack of clear resolution on many technical problems, give rise to a number of policy issues critical to minimal competency testing programs which are tied to graduation. Three program…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Cost Estimates
