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-Research(143)EDRS PRICEEDRS Price MF01/PC01 Plus Postage.DESCRIPTORS*Academic Achievement;Elementary Secondary Education;Ethnicity;Preservice Teacher Education;*PreserviceTeachers;Sex Differences;Teacher Competencies;*TeacherCompetency Testing  \n# ABSTRACT\n\nOne dimension of the current educational reform movement madetesting teacher candidates a fixture in nearly every state.The companionproblem is that standardized test scores often correlate with the test-taker's ethnicity and gender.Such an outcome appears to place teachercompetency interests in competition with egalitarian interests.Is equity ofaccess sacrificed to the aptitude of teacher candidates?The results of thisstudy indicate that standardized tests need not have an inordinate impact onthe ethnicity and gender of those who wish to teach.Data were collected fromteacher candidates who took the California Basic Education Skills Test(CBEST)at one university in December 1997.Results from a study of severalhundred candidates in central California indicate that while those variablesare statistically significant predictors of teacher candidates'scores,theyexplain comparatively little of scoring variability.(Contains 1 figure,3tables,and 17 references.)(Author/SLD)  \n| Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made  \u003Cbr>from the original document.   |\n| --- |\n\n3D 478174  \nTM035066  \n# What has Teacher Competency Testing Wrought?\n\nU.S.DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONolice oEdcaliona Resacn an improvemonEDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATIONCDTCENTER (ERIC)inEHiUe This document has been reproduced asreceived from the person or organizationoriginating it  \nPERMISSIONTO REPRODUCE ANDDISSEMINATE THIS MATERIALHASBEEN GRANTED BY  \n  D.E.Tanner  \n口Minor changes have been made toimprove reproduction quality  \nPoints of view or opinions stated in thisdocument do not necessarily representofficial OERL position or policy  \nTO THE EDUCATIONALRESOURCESINFORMATIONCENTER(ERIC)  \nDavid E.Tanner,PhDCalifornia State University,Fresno  \nAbstract  \nOne dimension of the current educational reform movement made testing teachercandidates a fixture in nearly every state.The companion problem is that standardizedtest scores often correlate with the test-taker's ethnicity and gender.Such an outcomeappears to place teacher competency interests in competition with egalitarian interests.Isequity of access sacrificed to the aptitude of teacher candidates?The results of this studyindicate that standardized tests need not have an inordinate impact on the ethnicity andgender of those who wish to teach.Results from a study of several hundred candidates inCentral California indicate that while those variables are statistically significantpredictors of teacher candidates'scores,they explain comparatively little of scoringvariability.  \nEducational reform movements in this country tend to occur in a predictablecycle.Some event exposes an educational deficit after which a period of debate helpsshape the nature of the prescription.With Sputnik,for example,critics traced theshortfall to inadequate math and science training and improvement in those curricularareas became a reform focal point.  \nThe publication of\"A Nation at Risk\"(National Commission,1983)fueled areform movement that remains in process,but with at least two differences from the post-Sputnik era.First,rather than isolating a particular discipline or subject,there wereconcerns about the general performance of elementary and secondary school students,anemphasis punctuated by periodic,and uniformly discouraging,international comparisons(National Institute,1998).Second,rather than being content to manipulate funding,legislative bodies promoted teacher testing(Rudner,1988)and implied in so doing thatteacher quality was a causal factor in poor student performance.The testing reflected amore general suspicion that t","cbCaibWXuHTFusqM","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibWXuHTFusqM","pdf",226023,17,"English","# 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