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Seven Key Notes on Minimum Competency Testing.
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New York CityEducationOn-line TestingMinimum Competency TestingEducation ResearchElementary EducationProgram EvaluationTeacher EducationEducational PolicyPrimary EducationElementary Education InstructionBasic SkillsTest Process ImprovementElementary Education Education Workforce DevelopmentTest DevelopmentHenry M. BrickellEducational TestingEducational LeadershipEducational MeasurementCompetence-based ManagementElementary Education CurriculumSecondary EducationCurriculum & InstructionEducational AssessmentEducation PolicyFoundations Of EducationEducational Theory
HENRY M. BRICKELL is director of Policy Studies in Education, a division of the Academy for Educational Devel opment, New York City. A longer ver sion of this article was originally pre pared for the Education Commission of the States and the National Institute of Education in cooperation with the Carnegie Corporation. A policy workbook based on this article is available from the Education Commission of the States. indicate whether the student is ready for the shopping center. Both are im portant. Which competencies should you require? How about school skills for the college-bound and life skills for the job-bound? Or maybe both for every body? How about school skills for promotion to the next grade and life skills for graduation from school? Or maybe both at every point in school, so that every student must climb a step ladder of learning with its rungs held up on two sides: school skills on one side, life skills on the other? Of course, there are basic skills ? such as reading, writing, and arith metic ? used in both school and life, which is why we call them basic. In addition, there are school subjects ? art, business, English, etc. ? and there are life areas: citizenship, work, family, etc. Thus you have five choices. You could test competence in each: