Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1979

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

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.

Extent

212 p.

Comments

Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1979.|College of Education|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1979.

Identifier

FADT11722

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