Minimum Competency Testing: Another Case of Hyper-Rationalization.

Wise, Arthur E.

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ERIC Number: EJ177670

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Publication Date: 1978

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Minimum Competency Testing: Another Case of Hyper-Rationalization

Wise, Arthur E.

Phi Delta Kappan, 59, 9, 596-8, May 78

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, Students, Testing Programs

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