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MODEL FOR PUPIL PROGRESSION AND COMPENSATORY EDUCATION BASED ON A STUDY OF THE PLANS IN FLORIDA'S SIXTY-SEVEN COUNTIES

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Date Issued:
1979
Summary:
Responding to demands for high school graduation competency testing and an end to social promotion, the Florida Legislature acted in 1976 to require each school district to adopt a pupil progression plan and in 1977 to adopt a compensatory education plan. The passage of these two acts identified Florida as the state with the most comprehensive state mandated, competency based educational programs, focusing on the basic skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic. Other states have taken some action toward requiring that each secondary school student master some level of basic skills competency before graduation. However, no state has gone as far as Florida with statewide minimum standards, testing, remediation funding, and cost effectiveness accountability. The consensus model plan for compensatory education uses the results of the state assessment tests to both identify the target population and as a pre-test for evaluation purposes with a locally developed criterion referenced test as the post-test. The grade levels served would be the eleventh plus at least one other grade, most often eighth. The teaching method would be a diagnostic and prescriptive approach.
Title: A MODEL FOR PUPIL PROGRESSION AND COMPENSATORY EDUCATION BASED ON A STUDY OF THE PLANS IN FLORIDA'S SIXTY-SEVEN COUNTIES.
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Name(s): RYAN, KATHLEEN PATRICIA.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1979
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 212 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Responding to demands for high school graduation competency testing and an end to social promotion, the Florida Legislature acted in 1976 to require each school district to adopt a pupil progression plan and in 1977 to adopt a compensatory education plan. The passage of these two acts identified Florida as the state with the most comprehensive state mandated, competency based educational programs, focusing on the basic skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic. Other states have taken some action toward requiring that each secondary school student master some level of basic skills competency before graduation. However, no state has gone as far as Florida with statewide minimum standards, testing, remediation funding, and cost effectiveness accountability. The consensus model plan for compensatory education uses the results of the state assessment tests to both identify the target population and as a pre-test for evaluation purposes with a locally developed criterion referenced test as the post-test. The grade levels served would be the eleventh plus at least one other grade, most often eighth. The teaching method would be a diagnostic and prescriptive approach.
Identifier: 11722 (digitool), FADT11722 (IID), fau:8654 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1979.
College of Education
Subject(s): Compensatory education--Education--Florida
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