Group: alt.education
From: "jingojones"
Date: Friday, March 07, 2008 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: ABCTE is a Good Option to fill Teacher Shortage, Pt 2


wrote in message news:v9l1t3p5an1nrq82pgr05tthdedd8knjn7@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 22:58:46 -0600, "jingojones"
> wrote:
>
>>My assumption is that both Praxis and the ABCTE tests are minimal
>>compentency tests. As such, it wouldn't be a big surprise to find that
>>those
>>trained to pass the tests would be able to pass the tests.
>
> What test isn't a minimal competency test?

So called "norm -referenced" tests, for one. Or another flavor of the same
thing - tests given in classes where success or failure is determined by
"the curve."

mark

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