An Elementary School Principal's Experience With Implementing an Outcome-Based Curriculum.

• Authors : Towers, G. Charles; Towers, James M.

Subjects: Academic Achievement; Academic Standards; Administrator Attitudes

• Source: Contemporary Education, v68 n1 p67-72 Fall 1996.

• Abstract: Describes one elementary principal's experience with implementing outcome-based education (OBE), which combines competency based education and mastery learning. The principal explains ...

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Back-to-Basics and Student Minimal Competency Evaluation: How to Spell "School" with Three R's and an E.

• Authors : Norton, James R.

Subjects: Basic Skills; Competency Based Education; Curriculum

• Source: Contemporary Education, v50 n2 p98-103 Win 1979.

• Abstract: Evaluation of student minimal competency should be based partly on national concerns, partly on local concerns, and partly on the needs of the learner. Evaluation ...

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Competency Testing: Blessing or Bane?

• Authors : Urzillo, Robert L.

Subjects: Academic Standards; Competency Based Education; Core Curriculum

• Source: Contemporary Education, v59 n1 p13-14 Fall 1987.

• Abstract: The popular educational reform trend toward competency testing is appropriate to measure achievement in the basic skills areas, but competency testing in core curriculum areas ...

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The Generation of Competencies: Induction, Deduction and Seduction

• Authors : McGuire, Eugene

Subjects: Competency Based Education; Concept Formation; Educational Objectives

• Source: Contemporary Education, 48, 4, 198-201, Sum 77.

• Abstract: The author reviews various sources of competencies used in forming a competency based educational process, dividing these sources into three groups: inductive (from observation), deductive (...

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Maximizing Minimal Expectations or Schooling for Hard Times.

• Authors : Franzosa, Susan Douglas

Subjects: Basic Skills; Competency Based Education; Educational Assessment

• Source: Contemporary Education, v55 n3 p167-72 Spr 1984.

• Abstract: This paper describes the philosophic assumptions underlying the movement towards minimum competency testing. Definitions of such concepts as scientific educational management, what is worth knowing, ...

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Outcome-based action: An invitation to change

• Authors : Hettinger, Margaret

• Source: Contemporary Education. Winter99, Vol. 70 Issue 2, p52. 5p.

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