Sentences with phrase «minimum competency test»

They called for a minimum competency test for 8th graders to pass before moving on to 9th grade.

In the late 1970s, a backlash against the reform ideas of the 1960s and early 1970s led to the rise of minimum competency testing and, once again, a return to the basics.

They established minimum competency tests, increased course requirements, and introduced more challenging exit examinations.

The article begins with a discussion of national reform movements that have influenced math instruction (i.e., National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards, minimum competency testing, graduation requirements, inclusion).

While NPR's Westervelt criticizes Kane for making a «pretty scathing and strong indictment» of America's education system, what Kane does not understand writ large is that the very solutions for which Kane advocates — using VAM - based measurements to fire and hire bad and good teachers, respectively — are really no different than the «stronger accountability» measures upon which we have relied for the last 40 years (since the minimum competency testing era) within this alleged «echo chamber.»

Assessment — Method of measuring the learning and performance of students; examples include achievement tests, minimum competency tests, developmental screening tests, aptitude tests, observation instruments, performance tasks, etc..

However, the basic expectations assessed through the minimum competency tests often became the aspirations for instruction.

Although this article deals with minimum competency tests, which were in policy fashion at the time, about seven policy iterations ago, the contents of the article still have much relevance given where we are today — investing in «new and improved» Common Core tests and still riding on unsinkable beliefs that this is the way to reform the schools that have been in despair and (still) in need of major repair since 20 + years ago.

In the 1980s, policymakers created a set of minimum competency tests, which they intended schools to use as a foundation for performance.

The apparent «race to the bottom» phenomenon spurred by minimum competency testing led to an emphasis on high expectations.

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Interestingly, the committee's conclusion with respect to exit exams does not pick up on the full report's emphasis on the importance of the design features of incentive systems, which include warnings that tests aimed at ensuring minimum competency may lower expectations, and concerns about both the potential narrowing of the curriculum and the tendency for score inflation on a known test.

Fewer students than expected have failed Indiana's new competency test, prompting state officials to consider adjusting its minimum passing score.

The assassins were disparity, minimum - competency testing, and misguided utilitarianism.

The report also found that 28 states require high school seniors to pass an exit exam — a test that requires students to achieve minimum competency — to receive a high school diploma.

Amrein and Berliner also used trends on the SAT, the ACT, and Advanced Placement (AP) exams to assess the effectiveness of minimum - competency exams in the 18 states where students must pass such tests in order to graduate from high school.

The legislation, which is based on the recommendations of a task force appointed by Ms. Castor, calls for scrapping the state's tests of minimum skills in grades 3, 5, 8, and 10, as well as the minimum - competency test required for high - school graduation.

While improved curricular standards yielded benefits in employment and in course - taking, minimum - competency testing had relatively few of the desired effects on educational attainment and early labor - market experiences.

In addition, these factors, which are unique to each state yet difficult to account for, may influence a state's decision to adopt reforms like minimum - competency tests and higher curricular standards.

For example, both minimum - competency testing and increased coursework requirements led to reductions in educational attainment that were most pronounced among black students.

For instance, did the requirement that all students pass a minimum - competency test in order to graduate from high school encourage more students (in particular, minorities) to drop out of high school, as many critics feared?

Known generally as exit exams, students must pass minimum - competency exams like New Jersey's High School Proficiency Test (HSPT) to graduate from high school.

Launched in 1984 by the former superintendent of the Minneapolis schools, Richard Green, the test was part of a strategy to reduce the incidence of «social promotion» and to hold schools accountable for results by testing students» «minimum competencies» at various grade levels.

When, however, my colleagues and I analyzed longitudinal data that adjusted for the grades and test scores of students in 8th grade, we found that students at schools with minimum - competency exams with C - grades in 8th grade, while not more likely to drop out, were about 7 percentage points less likely to get a high - school diploma or a General Education Diploma (GED) within six years.

The effects of minimum - competency exams on average 8th grade NAEP test scores were positive but small and mainly insignificant.

The hybrid end - of - course / minimum - competency exam systems that have been in place in New York State since the early 1980s and in North Carolina since about 1990 clearly had the largest effects on test scores.

The sad reality is most people seem to think gifted students will be «fine» since they are usually capable of passing minimum - competency standardized tests (which is what school is all about, right?).

Educators and the public quickly discovered that «the minimum became the maximum,» and that minimum - competency testing on basic skills was actually de-skilling students (Brookhart, 2013c).

As a rule, candidates who obtain their certification from the National Center for Competency Testing are expected to complete a bare minimum of fourteen clock hours of ongoing edification on a yearly basis in order to uphold their active status.

It also lets your future employer know that you have tested and now meet a minimum level of competency.

State - specific credentialing often drives the minimum qualifications, but most FCT direct service clinicians are Master's level professionals with human service degrees (psychology, social work, counseling, marriage and family therapy, etc.) Certification in Family Centered Treatment ® is a requirement; an online 100 - hour participatory and tested training course with field based competency requirements.