University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Factors Underlying Local Education Agency Decisions to Adopt or Reject the Use of a Minimum Competency Test as a Requirement for High School Graduation
Abstract
dc:descriptionThere is a concern by many educators as well as the general public that somehow education is not working. The solution by some school districts has been to implement a minimum competency test--a test which purports to declare on a pass-fail basis the acquisition of a competency or skill to a predetermined minimum standard--and tie the results of that test to graduation from high school. This study documents the characteristics of Illinois districts that have chosen to tie a minimum competency test (MCT) to high school graduation and the reasons of key decision makers in these districts as well as the characteristics of those districts that have rejected the opportunity to tie a minimum competency test to high school graduation and the reasons of their representatives.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Educat.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Education
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Kerins, C. Thomas
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8209594
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/68780