The legal aspects of competency-based testing for high school graduation
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Rupert Neil Blanton (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Joseph E. Bryson
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to ascertain the legal status of competency-based testing for the high school diploma in the United States. A study of background factors, the use of a questionnaire, and a search for applicable court cases constituted the methods of research used. The research on background factors revealed the following conditions important in providing a pro-competency testing atmosphere during the late seventies: a fourteen-year decline in scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test, a decline in public school standards and achievement over the past two decades as measured and publicized by national agencies, and pressures for reform from a wide spectrum of the non-educational establishment.
The legal aspects of competency-based testing for high school graduation
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 1979
- Subjects
- Competency-based educational tests $x Law and legislation
- Competency-based education $z United States
- Educational law and legislation